Dictionary Entry
distribution
distribution is a 12-letter English word with 10 senses as noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: 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. Face value is 15 in Scrabble and 18 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
12 letters · Scrabble 15 · Words With Friends 18 · 10 senses
Definitions
- 1noun
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.
- 2noun
Separation into parts or classes; arrangement of anything into parts; disposition; classification.
- 3noun
That which is distributed.
- 4noun
A resolving a whole into its parts.
- 5noun
The sorting of types and placing them in their proper boxes in the cases.
- 6noun
The steps or operations by which steam is supplied to and withdrawn from the cylinder at each stroke of the piston; viz., admission, suppression or cutting off, release or exhaust, and compression of exhaust steam prior to the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.
- 7noun
the act of distributing or spreading or apportioning
- 8noun
the commercial activity of transporting and selling goods from a producer to a consumer
- 9noun
the spatial or geographic property of being scattered about over a range, area, or volume
"worldwide in distribution"
"the distribution of nerve fibers"
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- 10noun
(statistics) an arrangement of values of a variable showing their observed or theoretical frequency of occurrence
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