Definition of Distribution

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Distribution

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.

Separation into parts or classes; arrangement of anything into parts; disposition; classification.

That which is distributed.

A resolving a whole into its parts.

The sorting of types and placing them in their proper boxes in the cases.

The steps or operations by which steam is supplied to and withdrawn from the cylinder at each stroke of the piston; viz., admission, suppression or cutting off, release or exhaust, and compression of exhaust steam prior to the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.

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Distribution Quotations

I resolved to stop accumulating and begin the infinitely more serious and difficult task of wise distribution.
Andrew Carnegie

Increasing inequality in income distribution in this country has broader policy implications, and there is also the growing problem of perverse incentives that result from executives receiving grossly disproportionate compensation based on decisions they themselves take.
Barney Frank

Real politics are the possession and distribution of power.
Benjamin Disraeli

An anthill increases by accumulation. Medicine is consumed by distribution. That which is feared lessens by association. This is the thing to understand.
Ovid

The two offices of memory are collection and distribution.
Samuel Johnson

What commercialism has brought into Linux has been the incentive to make a good distribution that is easy to use and that has all the packaging issues worked out.
Linus Torvalds

The speed of communications is wondrous to behold. It is also true that speed can multiply the distribution of information that we know to be untrue.
Edward R. Murrow

If poetry should address itself to the same needs and aspirations, the same hopes and fears, to which the Bible addresses itself, it might rival it in distribution.
Wallace Stevens

HAG Records, is a company that I've owned. I've had a couple of gospel releases on it. We developed a pretty good distribution setup there and we do have something to use in case they don't want to sign us.
Merle Haggard

Entropy theory, on the other hand, is not concerned with the probability of succession in a series of items but with the overall distribution of kinds of items in a given arrangement.
Rudolf Arnheim

Distribution Translations

distribution in Danish is fordeling
distribution in Dutch is verdeling, uitreiking
distribution in Finnish is vanavesi
distribution in German is Verteilung
distribution in Italian is erogazione
distribution in Norwegian is utdeling, fordeling
distribution in Swedish is spridning, utdelning, utbredning

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