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dis·tri·bu·tion

(dĭs′trə-byo͞o′shən)

1. The process of distributing or the condition of being distributed, especially:

a. The process of marketing and supplying goods, especially to retailers.

b. Law The transmission of inherited property to its heirs after taxes, debts, and costs of the estate have been paid.

2. Something distributed; an allotment: distributions from a retirement account.

3. A spatial or temporal array of objects or events, especially:

a. The geographic occurrence or range of an organism.

b. The geographic occurrence or range of a custom, usage, or other feature.

4. Statistics A characterization of the occurrence of the actual unique values in a set of data (as in a frequency distribution) or of the theoretical unique values of a random variable (as in a probability distribution).

5. Mathematics A generalized function used in the study of partial differential equations.

dis′tri·bu′tion·al adj.

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distributional - of or relating to spatial distribution; "distributional requirements"

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distributional

[ˌdɪstrɪˈbjuːʃənəl] ADJ → distribucional

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