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DISTRIBUTION
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The act of distributing or spreading or apportioning
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("distribution" is a kind of...):
act; deed; human action; human activity (something that people do or cause to happen)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "distribution"):
assigning; assignment (the act of distributing something to designated places or persons)
redistribution (distributing again)
dispensation (the act of dispensing (giving out in portions))
allocation; allotment; apportioning; apportionment; assignation; parceling; parcelling (the act of distributing by allotting or apportioning; distribution according to a plan)
deal (the act of distributing playing cards)
revenue sharing (distribution of part of the federal tax income to states and municipalities)
share-out; sharing (a distribution in shares)
Derivation:
distribute (distribute or disperse widely)
distribute (administer or bestow, as in small portions)
Sense 2
Meaning:
The commercial activity of transporting and selling goods from a producer to a consumer
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("distribution" is a kind of...):
commerce; commercialism; mercantilism (transactions (sales and purchases) having the objective of supplying commodities (goods and services))
Holonyms ("distribution" is a part of...):
marketing (the commercial processes involved in promoting and selling and distributing a product or service)
Derivation:
distribute (make available)
Sense 3
Meaning:
The spatial or geographic property of being scattered about over a range, area, or volume
Example:
in complementary distribution
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Hypernyms ("distribution" is a kind of...):
spacing; spatial arrangement (the property possessed by an array of things that have space between them)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "distribution"):
scatter; spread (a haphazard distribution in all directions)
innervation (the distribution of nerve fibers to an organ or body region)
diffusion; dissemination (the property of being diffused or dispersed)
diaspora (the dispersion or spreading of something that was originally localized (as a people or language or culture))
complementary distribution; complementation ((linguistics) a distribution of related speech sounds or forms in such a way that they only appear in different contexts)
Antonym:
concentration (the spatial property of being crowded together)
Sense 4
Meaning:
(statistics) an arrangement of values of a variable showing their observed or theoretical frequency of occurrence
Synonyms:
distribution; statistical distribution
Classified under:
Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents
Hypernyms ("distribution" is a kind of...):
arrangement; organisation; organization; system (an organized structure for arranging or classifying)
Domain category:
statistics (a branch of applied mathematics concerned with the collection and interpretation of quantitative data and the use of probability theory to estimate population parameters)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "distribution"):
equidistribution (a flat distribution having equal frequencies of occurrence)
frequency distribution (a distribution of observed frequencies of occurrence of the values of a variable)
Gaussian distribution; normal distribution (a theoretical distribution with finite mean and variance)
Poisson distribution (a theoretical distribution that is a good approximation to the binomial distribution when the probability is small and the number of trials is large)
sample; sample distribution; sampling (items selected at random from a population and used to test hypotheses about the population)
Bernoulli distribution; binomial distribution (a theoretical distribution of the number of successes in a finite set of independent trials with a constant probability of success)
Context examples:
The three conserved (GPCR Family) widely expressed types of Adenosine Receptors (A1, A2, A3) exhibit specific patterns of ligand binding and unique tissue distributions.
(Adenosine Receptor, NCI Thesaurus)
The rate of disease occurrence, or proportion of disease occurrences in a given population, during a specified time period, statistically modified to eliminate the effect of the various age distributions.
(Age-Adjusted Incidence Rate, NCI Thesaurus)
The distribution of resources over various time periods, products, operations, or investments.
(Allocation, NCI Thesaurus)
Observing the same principle of widest distribution of weight, the dogs at the ends of their ropes radiated fan-fashion from the nose of the sled, so that no dog trod in another's footsteps.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
The viruses have a widespread distribution and include both exogenous (vertical and horizontal transmission) and endogenous viruses of chickens and some other birds.
(Alpharetrovirus, NCI Thesaurus)
This distribution models systems in which each trial results in one of a finite set of outcomes with a fixed probability.
(Multinomial Distribution, NCI Thesaurus)
A normal distribution which models more than one variable of interest.
(Multivariate Normal Distribution, NCI Thesaurus)
The observed volume of distribution based on the terminal phase.
(Observed Volume of Distribution, NCI Thesaurus)
The volume of distribution at steady state based on the observed CLST for a substance administered by intravascular dosing divided by the weight.
(Observed Steady State Volume of Distribution Normalized by Weight, NCI Thesaurus)
The volume of distribution at steady state based on the observed CLST for a substance administered by intravascular dosing divided by the surface area.
(Observed Steady State Volume of Distribution Normalized by Surface Area, NCI Thesaurus)
