| 单词 | distribution |
| 释义 | distribution (once / 231 pages) n Distribution means the passing out of something. A teacher is in charge of distribution of corrected essays. A lunch lady manages the distribution of food. Distribution can also refer to the way something is distributed. In our country, many are concerned about the distribution of wealth, which is increasingly concentrated in the hands of the richest few. When you put money in a brokerage account, it's called a contribution. Taking it out is a distribution. WORD FAMILYdistribution: distributional, distributions+/distributary: distributaries/distribute: distributary, distributed, distributer, distributes, distributing, distribution, distributive, distributor, redistribute/distributed: undistributed/distributer: distributers/distributive: distributively/distributor: distributors/redistribute: redistributed, redistributes, redistributing, redistribution/redistribution: redistributions USAGE EXAMPLESThey are small electricity generation and distribution systems that operate independently of larger grids. BBC(Jan 02, 2017) The company plans to expand distribution early next year. New York Times(Jan 02, 2017) Both companies are focusing more heavily on digital distribution. Los Angeles Times(Jan 02, 2017) 1n the act of distributing or spreading or apportioning Hypo|Hyper assigning, assignment the act of distributing something to designated places or persons redistributiondistributing again dispensationthe act of dispensing (giving out in portions) allocation, allotment, apportioning, apportionment, assignation, parceling, parcellingthe act of distributing by allotting or apportioning; distribution according to a plan dealthe act of distributing playing cards revenue sharingdistribution of part of the federal tax income to states and municipalities share-out, sharinga distribution in shares grant, subsidisation, subsidizationthe act of providing a subsidy allocation, storage allocation(computer science) the assignment of particular areas of a magnetic disk to particular data or instructions reallocation, reallotment, reapportionmenta new apportionment (especially a new apportionment of congressional seats in the United States on the basis of census results) dealthe act of apportioning or distributing something rationingthe act of rationing parcel, portion, sharethe allotment of some amount by dividing something misdealan incorrect deal generosity, unselfishnessacting generously gift, givingthe act of giving act, deed, human action, human activity something that people do or cause to happen 2n the spatial or geographic property of being scattered about over a range, area, or volume worldwide in distribution the distribution of nerve fibers in complementary distribution Syn|Ant|Hypo|Hyper dispersion compactness, concentration, denseness, density, tightness the spatial property of being crowded together complementary distribution, complementation (linguistics) a distribution of related speech sounds or forms in such a way that they only appear in different contexts diasporathe dispersion or spreading of something that was originally localized (as a people or language or culture) diffusion, disseminationthe property of being diffused or dispersed innervationthe distribution of nerve fibers to an organ or body region scatter, spreada haphazard distribution in all directions diffusenessthe spatial property of being spread out over a wide area or through a large volume spacing, spatial arrangement the property possessed by an array of things that have space between them 3n the commercial activity of transporting and selling goods from a producer to a consumer Hyper commerce, commercialism, mercantilism transactions (sales and purchases) having the objective of supplying commodities (goods and services) 4n (statistics) an arrangement of values of a variable showing their observed or theoretical frequency of occurrence Syn|Hypo|Hyper statistical distribution equidistribution a flat distribution having equal frequencies of occurrence frequency distributiona distribution of observed frequencies of occurrence of the values of a variable Gaussian distribution, normal distributiona theoretical distribution with finite mean and variance Poisson distributiona theoretical distribution that is a good approximation to the binomial distribution when the probability is small and the number of trials is large sample, sample distribution, samplingitems selected at random from a population and used to test hypotheses about the population Bernoulli distribution, binomial distributiona theoretical distribution of the number of successes in a finite set of independent trials with a constant probability of success acceptance samplinga statistical procedure for accepting or rejecting a batch of merchandise or documents; involves determining the maximum number of defects discovered in a sample before the entire batch is rejected random samplea sample in which every element in the population has an equal chance of being selected proportional sample, representative sample, stratified samplethe population is divided into strata and a random sample is taken from each stratum arrangement, organisation, organization, system an organized structure for arranging or classifying |
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