Meaning & use

distribution

noun·Academic

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.

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