DISTRIBUTION

noun Date: 14th century 1. the act or process of distributing, the apportionment by a court of the personal property of an intestate, 2. the position, arrangement, or frequency of occurrence (as of the members of a group) over an area or throughout a space or unit of time, the natural geographic range of an organism, 3. something distributed: as, a sum of money withdrawn from a fund (as a retirement fund) and given to the beneficiary or holder of the fund, dividend 1a, b. frequency ~ , probability function , probability density function 2, the pattern of branching and termination of a ramifying structure (as a nerve), the marketing or merchandising of commodities, ~al adjective