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distributions

/ˌdɪstrɪˈbjuːʃənz/ /ˌdɪstrəˈbjuːʃənz/

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An act of distributing or state of being distributed.

Examples :

"The distributions of food and water were organized by volunteers after the hurricane. "

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An apportionment by law (of funds, property).

Examples :

"The judge ordered the distributions of the inheritance to be made equally among the three siblings. "

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The process by which goods get to final consumers over a geographical market, including storing, selling, shipping and advertising.

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"The company streamlined its distributions to reduce shipping costs and ensure quicker delivery of products to stores across the country. "

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Anything distributed; portion; share.

Examples :

"The teacher announced that the distributions of candy would be fair, with each student receiving the same amount. "

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The result of distributing; arrangement.

Examples :

"The distributions of books to each student in the classroom were carefully planned. "

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The total number of something sold or delivered to the clients.

Examples :

"The distribution of my little rock magazine is about 3,000."

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The frequency of occurrence or extent of existence.

Examples :

"The distributions of grades on the final exam showed that most students understood the material well, with a large number earning A's and B's. "

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The apportionment of income or wealth in a population.

Examples :

"The wealth distribution became extremely skewed in the kleptocracy."

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The way in which a player's hand is divided in suits, or in which a particular suit is divided between the players.

Examples :

"The declarer had 3-6-2-2 distribution."

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A probability distribution; the set of relative likelihoods that a variable will have a value in a given interval.

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"The exam scores showed interesting distributions, with most students either getting very high or very low marks. "

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A subset of the tangent bundle of a manifold that satisfies certain properties; used to construct the notions of integrability and foliation of a manifold.

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"The study of distributions on the surface of a sphere helps us understand how to divide it into smaller, consistent regions, like slicing an orange peel. "

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A set of bundled software components; distro.

Examples :

"Many Linux distributions like Ubuntu and Fedora are available for free. "

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The process or result of the sale of securities, especially their placement among investors with long-term investment strategies.

Examples :

"The company hired a brokerage firm to handle the distributions of its new stock to pension funds and other long-term investors. "

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The resolution of a whole into its parts.

Examples :

"The pie chart showed the distributions of student grades across different subjects, breaking down the overall class performance into individual subject scores. "

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

Examples :

""After carefully grading the exams, the teacher organized the distributions of papers into separate piles: A's, B's, C's, D's, and F's." "

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Examples :

"The engineer carefully monitored the steam engine's distributions, ensuring the proper sequence of admission, cutoff, release, and compression for efficient operation. "

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A rhetorical technique in which a subject is divided into multiple cases based on some property or properties, and each case is addressed individually.

Examples :

"The teacher used distributions to explain different types of arguments: first, she described arguments based on logic; second, she addressed emotional arguments; and finally, she covered arguments that rely on authority. "

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