[dis.tri.bu.tion] n (14c) 1 a: the act or process of distributing b: the apportionment by a court of the personal property of an intestate
2. a: 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 b: the natural geographic range of an organism 3 a: something distributed b (1): frequency distribution (2): probability function (3): probability density function 2
4: the pattern of branching and termination of a ramifying structure (as a nerve)
5: the marketing or merchandising of commodities -- dis.tri.bu.tion.al adj