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Verbreitung — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • dissemination noun The act of disseminating, or the state of being disseminated; diffusion for propagation and permanence; a scattering or spreading abroad, as of ideas, beliefs, etc.
  • distribution noun The act of spreading or handing something out.
  • pervasiveness noun The state or quality of being present in all parts of a particular thing or place.
  • proliferation noun A rapid increase in the number or spread of something.
  • spreading noun The act of something becoming more widely distributed or known.

Senses

Verbreitung is used for these senses in English:

  • dissemination The act of disseminating, or the state of being disseminated; diffusion for propagation and permanence; a scattering or spreading abroad, as of ideas, beliefs, etc.
  • distribution An act of distributing or state of being distributed.
  • distribution Anything distributed; portion; share.
  • distribution The frequency of occurrence or extent of existence.
  • pervasiveness The state or quality of being present in all parts of a particular thing or place.
  • proliferation (uncountable) In paticular, the spread (proliferating) of biochemical, nuclear and other weapons of mass destruction to countries not originally involved in developing them.
  • spreading The act by which something is spread.

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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