distribution

English Thesaurus

1. the act of distributing or spreading or apportioning (noun.act)

hypernym	:	act, deed, human action, human activity,
definition	:	something that people do or cause to happen (noun.tops)

hyponym	:	assigning, assignment,
definition	:	the act of distributing something to designated places or persons (noun.act)

hyponym	:	redistribution,
definition	:	distributing again (noun.act)

hyponym	:	dispensation,
definition	:	the act of dispensing (giving out in portions) (noun.act)

hyponym	:	allocation, allotment, apportioning, apportionment, assignation, parceling, parcelling,
definition	:	the act of distributing by allotting or apportioning; distribution according to a plan (noun.act)

hyponym	:	deal,
definition	:	the act of distributing playing cards (noun.act)

hyponym	:	revenue sharing,
definition	:	distribution of part of the federal tax income to states and municipalities (noun.act)

hyponym	:	share-out, sharing,
definition	:	a distribution in shares (noun.act)

2. the commercial activity of transporting and selling goods from a producer to a consumer (noun.act)

hypernym	:	commerce, commercialism, mercantilism,
definition	:	transactions (sales and purchases) having the objective of supplying commodities (goods and services) (noun.act)

part meronym	:	marketing,
definition	:	the commercial processes involved in promoting and selling and distributing a product or service (noun.act)

3. the spatial or geographic property of being scattered about over a range, area, or volume (noun.attribute)

hypernym	:	spacing, spatial arrangement,
definition	:	the property possessed by an array of things that have space between them (noun.attribute)

hyponym	:	complementary distribution, complementation,
definition	:	(linguistics) a distribution of related speech sounds or forms in such a way that they only appear in different contexts (noun.attribute)

hyponym	:	diaspora,
definition	:	the dispersion or spreading of something that was originally localized (as a people or language or culture) (noun.attribute)

hyponym	:	diffusion, dissemination,
definition	:	the property of being diffused or dispersed (noun.attribute)

hyponym	:	innervation,
definition	:	the distribution of nerve fibers to an organ or body region (noun.attribute)

hyponym	:	scatter, spread,
definition	:	a haphazard distribution in all directions (noun.attribute)

4. (statistics) an arrangement of values of a variable showing their observed or theoretical frequency of occurrence (noun.cognition)

hypernym	:	arrangement, organisation, organization, system,
definition	:	an organized structure for arranging or classifying (noun.cognition)

hyponym	:	equidistribution,
definition	:	a flat distribution having equal frequencies of occurrence (noun.cognition)

hyponym	:	frequency distribution,
definition	:	a distribution of observed frequencies of occurrence of the values of a variable (noun.cognition)

hyponym	:	gaussian distribution, normal distribution,
definition	:	a theoretical distribution with finite mean and variance (noun.cognition)

hyponym	:	poisson distribution,
definition	:	a theoretical distribution that is a good approximation to the binomial distribution when the probability is small and the number of trials is large (noun.cognition)

hyponym	:	sample, sample distribution, sampling,
definition	:	items selected at random from a population and used to test hypotheses about the population (noun.cognition)

hyponym	:	bernoulli distribution, binomial distribution,
definition	:	a theoretical distribution of the number of successes in a finite set of independent trials with a constant probability of success (noun.cognition)

domain category	:	statistics,
definition	:	a branch of applied mathematics concerned with the collection and interpretation of quantitative data and the use of probability theory to estimate population parameters (noun.cognition)

5. the act of distributing or spreading or apportioning (noun.act)

derivation	:	distribute, spread,
definition	:	distribute or disperse widely (verb.contact)

derivation	:	administer, allot, deal, deal out, dish out, dispense, distribute, dole out, lot, mete out, parcel out, shell out,
definition	:	administer or bestow, as in small portions (verb.possession)

6. the commercial activity of transporting and selling goods from a producer to a consumer (noun.act)

derivation	:	distribute,
definition	:	make available (verb.social)

7. the spatial or geographic property of being scattered about over a range, area, or volume (noun.attribute)

antonym	:	compactness, concentration, denseness, density, tightness,
definition	:	the spatial property of being crowded together (noun.attribute)

8. the act of distributing or spreading or apportioning (noun.act)

derivation	:	distribute, spread,
definition	:	distribute or disperse widely (verb.contact)

derivation	:	administer, allot, deal, deal out, dish out, dispense, distribute, dole out, lot, mete out, parcel out, shell out,
definition	:	administer or bestow, as in small portions (verb.possession)

9. the commercial activity of transporting and selling goods from a producer to a consumer (noun.act)

derivation	:	distribute,
definition	:	make available (verb.social)

10. the spatial or geographic property of being scattered about over a range, area, or volume (noun.attribute)

antonym	:	compactness, concentration, denseness, density, tightness,
definition	:	the spatial property of being crowded together (noun.attribute)