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Distribution — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • distribution noun The act of spreading or handing something out.

Senses

Distribution is used for these senses in English:

  • distribution An act of distributing or state of being distributed.
  • distribution (business, marketing) The process by which goods get to final consumers over a geographical market, including storing, selling, shipping and advertising.
  • distribution The frequency of occurrence or extent of existence.
  • distribution (printing, historical) The process of sorting the types and placing them in their proper boxes in the cases.

distribution — full definition

  1. noun The act of spreading or handing something out.
  2. noun The process of getting goods from a maker to the people who buy them.
  3. noun In statistics, the pattern showing how spread out or common different values are.

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