distribution
distribution Lexical Profile
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• noun
The action or process of dividing, sharing out, or delivering something among a number of recipients.
"Volunteer organizations coordinated the fair distribution of food and clean water after the flood."
The spatial, geographic, or statistical way in which something is spread out, arranged, or occurs over an area or population.
"Ecologists mapped the geographic distribution of the endangered orchid across the mountain range."
The commercial activity of transporting, supplying, and marketing goods from a producer to wholesalers, retailers, or consumers.
"The independent film secured a nationwide theatrical distribution deal shortly after its festival premiere."
In statistics, a function or table showing all the possible values of a variable and the frequency or probability with which they occur.
"The test scores followed a normal bell-shaped distribution centered around the class average."
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Word Origin & Etymology
Borrowed in the late 14th century from Old French distribution or directly from Latin distributio ('a division, dealing out'), from the past participle stem of distribuere ('to divide up, deal out'), composed of dis- ('apart') and tribuere ('to assign, allot').