Definition of “distribution”

noun

1. the act of distributing or the state or manner of being distributed
2. a thing or portion distributed
3. arrangement or location
4. business the process of physically satisfying the demand for goods and services
5. economics the division of the total income of a community among its members, esp between labour incomes (wages and salaries) and property incomes (rents, interest, and dividends)
6. statistics the set of possible values of a random variable, or points in a sample space, considered in terms of new theoretical or observed frequency  ⇒ a normal distribution 
7. law the apportioning of the estate of a deceased intestate among the persons entitled to share in it
8. law the lawful division of the assets of a bankrupt among his creditors
9. finance 
   1. the division of part of a company's profit as a dividend to its shareholders
   2. the amount paid by dividend in a particular distribution
10. engineering the way in which the fuel-air mixture is supplied to each cylinder of a multicylinder internal-combustion engine