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US
/ˌdɪstɹəbˈjuʃən/
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[ UK /dˌɪstɹɪbjˈuːʃən/ ]
[ UK /dˌɪstɹɪbjˈuːʃən/ ]
NOUN
- the act of distributing or spreading or apportioning
- (statistics) an arrangement of values of a variable showing their observed or theoretical frequency of occurrence
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the spatial or geographic property of being scattered about over a range, area, or volume
in complementary distribution
worldwide in distribution
the distribution of nerve fibers - the commercial activity of transporting and selling goods from a producer to a consumer
How To Use distribution In A Sentence
- Chile's top constitutional court blocked a government bid to promote the free distribution of the morning-after pill to minors aged 14 and over, dealing a new setback to President Michelle Bachelet.
- With the range of firearms commonly used, from long-barreled .22 rimfire to snubby .44 magnum a friend calls his the "flare gun", you get quite a range of outcomes in terms of unburned powder distribution. Making Light: Beating airport chemical detection systems
- But I do know there is a greater prospect he will seek a bit of equity in the distribution of investment and development of infrastructure than the present triumvirate.
- Reliable statewide estimates of the specific offense distribution of California's probationers are not available.
- Except as noted below, data on all cause and cause specific child and infant mortality and of age distribution of child and infant mortality were regional estimates or other aggregates.
- Aim To prepare amylopectin anchored dipyridamole ( DIP ) liposome and to study its tissue distribution in mice.
- The excimer laser ablation nomogram controls the relative distribution of the refraction correction into one or more zones.
- The altitudinal distribution of Earth-surface processes is controlled by all these factors.
- Civilisation as we know it today can only lead to an increasingly unjust, and inequitable, distribution of power across the globe.
- Increasing technological application and innovation in manufacturing industries result in more specialisation and distribution of processes on a global scale.
