Meaning

• An act of distributing or state of being distributed.

• An apportionment by law (of funds, property).

• The process by which goods get to final consumers over a geographical market, including storing, selling, shipping and advertising.

• Anything distributed; portion; share.

• The result of distributing; arrangement.

• The total number of something sold or delivered to the clients.

  "The distribution of my little rock magazine is about 3,000."

• The frequency of occurrence or extent of existence.

• The apportionment of income or wealth in a population.

  "The wealth distribution became extremely skewed in the kleptocracy."

• The way in which a player's hand is divided in suits, or in which a particular suit is divided between the players.

  "The declarer had 3-6-2-2 distribution."

• A probability distribution; the set of relative likelihoods that a variable will have a value in a given interval.

• A subset of the tangent bundle of a manifold that satisfies certain properties; used to construct the notions of integrability and foliation of a manifold.

• A set of bundled software components; distro.

• The process or result of the sale of securities, especially their placement among investors with long-term investment strategies.

• The resolution of a whole into its parts.

• The process of sorting the types and placing them in their proper boxes in the cases.

• (steam engines) The steps or operations by which steam is supplied to and withdrawn from the cylinder at each stroke of the piston: admission, suppression or cutting off, release or exhaust, and compression of exhaust steam prior to the next admission.

• A rhetorical technique in which a subject is divided into multiple cases based on some property or properties, and each case is addressed individually.