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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Distribution \Dis`tri*bu"tion\, n. [L. distributio: cf. F. distribution.]
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The act of distributing or dispensing; the act of dividing or apportioning among several or many; apportionment; as, the distribution of an estate among heirs or children.
The phenomena of geological distribution are exactly analogous to those of geography.
--A. R. Wallace. Separation into parts or classes; arrangement of anything into parts; disposition; classification.
That which is distributed. ``Our charitable distributions.''
--Atterbury.(Logic) A resolving a whole into its parts.
(Print.) The sorting of types and placing them in their proper boxes in the cases.
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(Steam Engine) The steps or operations by which steam is supplied to and withdrawn from the cylinder at each stroke of the piston; viz., admission, suppression or cutting off, release or exhaust, and compression of exhaust steam prior to the next admission.
Geographical distribution, the natural arrangements of animals and plants in particular regions or districts.
Syn: Apportionments; allotment; dispensation; disposal; dispersion; classification; arrangement.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
mid-14c., from Old French distribution (13c.) and directly from Latin distributionem (nominative distributio) "a division, distribution," noun of action from past participle stem of distribuere "deal out in portions," from dis- "individually" + tribuere "assign, allot" (see tribute).
Wiktionary
n. 1 An act of distribute or state of being distributed. 2 An apportionment by law (of funds, property). 3 (context business marketing English) The process by which goods get to final consumers over a geographical market, including storing, selling, shipping and advertising. 4 The frequency of occurrence or extent of existence. 5 Anything distributed; portion; share. 6 The result of distributing; arrangement. 7 (context mathematics statistics English) A probability distribution; the set of relative likelihoods that a variable will have a value in a given interval. 8 (context computing English) A set of bundled software components; distro. 9 (context economics English) The apportionment of income or wealth in a population. 10 (context finance English) The process or result of the sale of securities, especially their placement among investors with long-term investment strategies. 11 (cx logic English) The resolution of a whole into its parts. 12 (cx printing historical English) The process of sorting the types and placing them in their proper boxes in the cases. 13 (cx steam engines English) 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. 14 (lb en rhetoric) (rfdef: English)
WordNet
n. (statistics) an arrangement of values of a variable showing their observed or theoretical frequency of occurrence [syn: statistical distribution]
the spatial property of being scattered about over an area or volume [syn: dispersion] [ant: concentration]
the act of distributing or spreading or apportioning
the commercial activity of transporting and selling goods from a producer to a consumer
Wikipedia
Product distribution (or place) is one of the four elements of the marketing mix. Distribution is the process of making a product or service available for use or consumption by a consumer or business user, using direct means, or using indirect means with intermediaries.
The other three parts of the marketing mix are product, pricing, and promotion.
In differential geometry, a discipline within mathematics, a distribution is a subset of the tangent bundle of a manifold satisfying certain properties. Distributions are used to build up notions of integrability, and specifically of a foliation of a manifold.
Even though they share the same name, distributions we discuss in this article have nothing to do with distributions in the sense of analysis.
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Distributions (or generalized functions) are objects that generalize the classical notion of functions in mathematical analysis. Distributions make it possible to differentiate functions whose derivatives do not exist in the classical sense. In particular, any locally integrable function has a distributional derivative. Distributions are widely used in the theory of partial differential equations, where it may be easier to establish the existence of distributional solutions than classical solutions, or appropriate classical solutions may not exist. Distributions are also important in physics and engineering where many problems naturally lead to differential equations whose solutions or initial conditions are distributions, such as the Dirac delta function (which is historically called a "function" even though it is not considered a genuine function mathematically).
The practical use of distributions can be traced back to the use of Green functions in the 1830s to solve ordinary differential equations, but was not formalized until much later. According to , generalized functions originated in the work of on second-order hyperbolic partial differential equations, and the ideas were developed in somewhat extended form by Laurent Schwartz in the late 1940s. According to his autobiography, Schwartz introduced the term "distribution" by analogy with a distribution of electrical charge, possibly including not only point charges but also dipoles and so on. comments that although the ideas in the transformative book by were not entirely new, it was Schwartz's broad attack and conviction that distributions would be useful almost everywhere in analysis that made the difference.
The basic idea in distribution theory is to reinterpret functions as linear functionals acting on a space of test functions. Standard functions act by integration against a test function, but many other linear functionals do not arise in this way, and these are the "generalized functions". There are different possible choices for the space of test functions, leading to different spaces of distributions. The basic space of test function consists of smooth functions with compact support, leading to standard distributions. Use of the space of smooth, rapidly (faster than any polynomial increases) decreasing test functions (these functions are called Schwartz functions) gives instead the tempered distributions, which are important because they have a well-defined distributional Fourier transform. Every tempered distribution is a distribution in the normal sense, but the converse is not true: in general the larger the space of test functions, the more restrictive the notion of distribution. On the other hand, the use of spaces of analytic test functions leads to Sato's theory of hyperfunctions; this theory has a different character from the previous ones because there are no analytic functions with non-empty compact support.
Distribution in pharmacology is a branch of pharmacokinetics which describes the reversible transfer of drug from one location to another within the body.
Once a drug enters into systemic circulation by absorption or direct administration, it must be distributed into interstitial and intracellular fluids. Each organ or tissue can receive different doses of the drug and the drug can remain in the different organs or tissues for a varying amount of time. The distribution of a drug between tissues is dependent on vascular permeability, regional blood flow, cardiac output and perfusion rate of the tissue and the ability of the drug to bind tissue and plasma proteins and its lipid solubility. pH partition plays a major role as well. The drug is easily distributed in highly perfused organs such as the liver, heart and kidney. It is distributed in small quantities through less perfused tissues like muscle, fat and peripheral organs. The drug can be moved from the plasma to the tissue until the equilibrium is established (for unbound drug present in plasma).
The concept of compartmentalization of an organism must be considered when discussing a drug’s distribution. This concept is used in pharmacokinetic modelling.
Distribution in economics refers to the way total output, income, or wealth is distributed among individuals or among the factors of production (such as labour, land, and capital). In general theory and the national income and product accounts, each unit of output corresponds to a unit of income. One use of national accounts is for classifying factor incomes and measuring their respective shares, as in National Income. But, where focus is on income of persons or households, adjustments to the national accounts or other data sources are frequently used. Here, interest is often on the fraction of income going to the top (or bottom) x percent of households, the next y percent, and so forth (say in quintiles), and on the factors that might affect them (globalization, tax policy, technology, etc.).
In algebra and number theory, a distribution is a function on a system of finite sets into an abelian group which is analogous to an integral: it is thus the algebraic analogue of a distribution in the sense of generalised function.
The original examples of distributions occur, unnamed, as functions φ on Q/Z satisfying
$$\sum_{r=0}^{N-1} \phi\left(x + \frac r N\right) = \phi(Nx) \ .$$
We shall call these ordinary distributions. They also occur in p-adic integration theory in Iwasawa theory.
Let ... → X → X → ... be a projective system of finite sets with surjections, indexed by the natural numbers, and let X be their projective limit. We give each X the discrete topology, so that X is compact. Let φ = be a family of functions on X taking values in an abelian group V and compatible with the projective system:
w(m, n)∑ϕ(y) = ϕ(x)
for some weight function w. The family φ is then a distribution on the projective system X.
A function f on X is "locally constant", or a "step function" if it factors through some X. We can define an integral of a step function against φ as
∫f dϕ = ∑f(x)ϕ(x) .
The definition extends to more general projective systems, such as those indexed by the positive integers ordered by divisibility. As an important special case consider the projective system Z/nZ indexed by positive integers ordered by divisibility. We identify this with the system (1/n)Z/Z with limit Q/Z.
For x in R we let ⟨x⟩ denote the fractional part of x normalised to 0 ≤ ⟨x⟩ < 1, and let {x} denote the fractional part normalised to 0 < {x} ≤ 1.
Usage examples of "distribution".
For instance, in 1981 Harry Oppenheimer, chairman of the giant Anglo American Corporation that controls gold and diamond mining, sales and distribution in the world, stated that he was about to launch into the North American banking market.
The characters of the sporogonium have as their object the nutrition and effective distribution of the spores, and only exceptionally, as in the Anthocerotaceae, are concerned with independent assimilation.
In that respect, Arvel would gain less, inasmuch as the Sarnirian System has a cos-mically unusual distribution of elements.
In that respect, Arvel would gain less, inasmuch as the Sarnirian System has a cosmically unusual distribution of elements.
The cause of their asynchrony is the random uneven distribution of the different kinds of molecules to the daughter cells at cell division.
And he knew enough people on the manufacturing and distribution side to get his tapes and CDs to the Great British Public without having to rely on the major distributors and shops if his bands were banned on taste grounds.
As Jacques Bernoulli demonstrated early in the eighteenth century, an isolated event is no harbinger of anything, but the greater your sampling the more likely you are to guess the true distribution of phenomena within your sample.
These studies have led him to examine the origin of fossil deposits, the possible paleoecological interactions between different dinosaurs and between various herbivorous dinosaurs and plants, and the biogeographic patterns of dinosaur distributions in western North America.
The distribution has been thrown into disorder by the people from the bombarded quarters flocking into the central ones, and wanting to be fed.
I expect we are all agreed that attempted murder is not in the best possible taste and a vague distribution of brummagem haloes will not persuade us to alter our opinion.
In effect, through the global distribution of capitals, technologies, goods, and populations, the transnational corporations construct vast networks of communication and provide the satisfaction of needs.
A console in the maneuvering room that controls the electrical distribution of the ship including the turbine generators and the battery.
When all the shipments had been removed and stored in the low holding warehouse for later distribution, and their totals entered into the computer systems, Troy would hand the double-checked manifests to Cren, who would then determine an equivalent amount of supplies to be sent back up to the Platform in exchange: water, canisters of air, craftwork, and hydroponically grown food or actual agricultural produce.
Classical culture, does not lie essentially in what they make it possible to see, but in what they hide and in what, by this process of obliteration, they allow to emerge: they screen off anatomy and function, they conceal the organism, in order to raise up before the eyes of those who await the truth the visible relief of forms, with their elements, their mode of distribution, and their measurements.
In addition, the federal government should require each state receiving federal emergency preparedness funds to provide an analysis based on the same criteria to justify the distribution of funds in that state.