distribution

noun

1. An act of distributing or state of being distributed.

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

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

4. Anything distributed; portion; share.

5. The result of distributing; arrangement.

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

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

7. The frequency of occurrence or extent of existence.

8. economicsThe apportionment of income or wealth in a population.

   “The wealth distribution became extremely skewed in the kleptocracy.”

9. card gamesThe 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.”

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

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

12. softwareA set of bundled software components.

    “a Linux distribution”

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

14. logicThe resolution of a whole into its parts.