Usually means: Allocation of resources or goods.
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We found 87 dictionaries that define the word distribution:

General (31 matching dictionaries)
  1. distribution: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. distribution: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. distribution: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. distribution: Collins English Dictionary
  5. distribution: Vocabulary.com
  6. Distribution, distribution: Wordnik
  7. distribution: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. distribution: Wiktionary
  9. distribution: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. distribution: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. distribution: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. distribution: Dictionary.com
  13. distribution: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. distribution: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Distribution (business), Distribution (differential geometry), Distribution (disambiguation), Distribution (ecology), Distribution (economics), Distribution (film), Distribution (logic), Distribution (marketing), Distribution (mathematics), Distribution (number theory), Distribution (pharmacology), Distribution (probability), Distribution (statistics), Distribution: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Distribution: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. distribution: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. distribution: Rhymezone
  19. distribution, distribution (f): AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. distribution: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. distribution: Free Dictionary
  22. distribution: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. distribution: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  24. distribution: Dictionary/thesaurus
  25. distribution: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Art (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Distribution (Dist.): Dictionary of Philosophical Terms and Names
  2. The Organon: A Conceptually Indexed Dictionary (by Genus and Differentia) (No longer online)
  3. Literary Criticism (No longer online)
  4. ODLIS: Online Dictionary of Library and Information Science (No longer online)

Business (23 matching dictionaries)
  1. MoneyGlossary.com (No longer online)
  2. distribution: Webster's New World Finance & Investment Dictionary
  3. distribution: Webster's New World Law Dictionary
  4. distribution: Law.com Dictionary
  5. Everybody's Legal Dictionary (No longer online)
  6. DS Dictionary (No longer online)
  7. Travel Industry Dictionary (No longer online)
  8. INVESTORWORDS (No longer online)
  9. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  10. Distribution: Bloomberg Financial Glossary
  11. Bernstein's Dictionary of Bankruptcy Terminology (No longer online)
  12. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)
  13. Distribution: eyefortransport e-commerce transportation glossary
  14. Distribution: Deardorff's Glossary of International Economics
  15. distribution: Finance-Glossary.com
  16. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  17. Distribution: Investopedia
  18. Comprehensive Financial (No longer online)
  19. Distribution: Energy Dictionary
  20. Distribution (disambiguation), distribution: Legal dictionary
  21. Distribution (disambiguation), Distribution (probability), Distribution (statistics), Distribution: Financial dictionary
  22. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)
  23. Yahoo Tax Center Glossary (No longer online)

Computing (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. distribution: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  2. distribution: Netlingo
  3. Distribution: Cybernetics and Systems
  4. Distribution (disambiguation), Distribution (probability), Distribution (statistics), distribution: Encyclopedia

Medicine (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Distribution (disambiguation), distribution: Medical dictionary
  4. Hepatitis C Information Central (No longer online)

Science (8 matching dictionaries)
  1. distribution: Archaeology Wordsmith
  2. Bird On! (No longer online)
  3. Distribution: Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics
  4. Botanical Terms (No longer online)
  5. distribution, distribution, distribution, distribution: PlanetMath Encyclopedia
  6. distribution: Anthropological Terms
  7. Distribution: Geography Dictionary
  8. Distribution: Fundamental Statistics for the Behavioral Sciences

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. distribution: Urban Dictionary

Sports (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Distribution: Backgammon
  2. Distribution: Fifthchair Bridge

Tech (10 matching dictionaries)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  2. Dairy Glossary (No longer online)
  3. DOD Dictionary of Military Terms (No longer online)
  4. DISTRIBUTION: Energy Terms
  5. Glossary of Composite Terms (No longer online)
  6. Glossary of Meteorology (No longer online)
  7. Distribution: Glossary of Insulator Terms
  8. Lake and Water Word Glossary (No longer online)
  9. Schlumberger Oilfield Glossary (No longer online)
  10. Glossary of Energy Terms (No longer online)

(Note: See distributional as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  An act of distributing or state of being distributed.
noun:  An apportionment by law (of funds, property).
noun:  (business, marketing) The process by which goods get to final consumers over a geographical market, including storing, selling, shipping and advertising.
noun:  Anything distributed; portion; share.
noun:  The result of distributing; arrangement.
noun:  The total number of something sold or delivered to the clients.
noun:  The frequency of occurrence or extent of existence.
noun:  (economics) The apportionment of income or wealth in a population.
noun:  (card games) The way in which a player's hand is divided in suits, or in which a particular suit is divided between the players.
noun:  (mathematics, statistics) A probability distribution; the set of relative likelihoods that a variable will have a value in a given interval.
noun:  (mathematics, differential geometry) 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.
noun:  (software) A set of bundled software components.
noun:  (finance) The process or result of the sale of securities, especially their placement among investors with long-term investment strategies.
noun:  (logic) The resolution of a whole into its parts.
noun:  (printing, historical) The process of sorting the types and placing them in their proper boxes in the cases.
noun:  (steam engines) The steps or operations by which steam is supplied to and withdrawn from the cylinder at each stroke of the piston: admission, suppression or cutting off, release or exhaust, and compression of exhaust steam prior to the next admission.
noun:  (rhetoric) A rhetorical technique in which a subject is divided into multiple cases based on some property or properties, and each case is addressed individually.

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