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

1. noun. 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.
2. noun. Separation into parts or classes; arrangement of anything into parts; disposition; classification.
3. noun. That which is distributed.
4. noun. A resolving a whole into its parts.
5. noun. The sorting of types and placing them in their proper boxes in the cases.
6. noun. The steps or operations by which steam is supplied to and withdrawn from the cylinder at each stroke of the piston; viz., admission, suppression or cutting off, release or exhaust, and compression of exhaust steam prior to the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.
7. noun. the act of distributing or spreading or apportioning
8. noun. the commercial activity of transporting and selling goods from a producer to a consumer
9. noun. the spatial or geographic property of being scattered about over a range, area, or volume

   "worldwide in distribution"

   "the distribution of nerve fibers"

   Synonyms: dispersion

10. noun. (statistics) an arrangement of values of a variable showing their observed or theoretical frequency of occurrence

Synonyms

dispersion

Common word forms

distributions, distributional

Words from these letters

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