Meaning & use
distribution
The action of distributing something, or the way something is spread or shared out.
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The company improved its distribution so stores received deliveries faster.
The chart showed an uneven distribution of wealth across the country.
A note on using this word
In statistics, distribution describes how values of a variable are spread across a range, as in a normal distribution.
Words with a similar meaning
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