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dis·tri·bu·tion  audio  (dstr-byshn) KEY 

NOUN:
  1. The act of distributing or the condition of being distributed; apportionment.
  2. Something distributed; an allotment.
  3. The act of dispersing or the condition of being dispersed; diffusion.
    1. The geographic occurrence or range of an organism.
    2. The geographic occurrence or range of a custom, usage, or other feature.
  5. Division into categories; classification.
  6. The process of marketing and supplying goods, especially to retailers.
  7. A spatial or temporal array of objects or events: the distribution of theaters on Broadway.
  8. Law The division of an estate or property among rightful heirs.
  9. Statistics A set of numbers and their frequency of occurrence collected from measurements over a statistical population.
  10. Mathematics A generalized function used in the study of partial differential equations.


OTHER FORMS:
distri·bution·al(Adjective)


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