1. A share set aside for a specific purpose
   - allotment 
2. The act of distributing by allotting or apportioning; distribution according to a plan
   - allotment, apportionment, apportioning, parceling [US], parcelling, assignation 
3. (computer science) the assignment of particular areas of a magnetic disk to particular data or instructions
   - storage allocation

Derived forms: allocations

See also: allocate

Type of: assigning, assignment, distribution, part, percentage, portion, share

Encyclopedia: Allocation

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