<p><strong>Noun</strong></p><ul><li>an act or instance of distributing.</li><li>the state or manner of being distributed.</li><li>arrangement; classification.</li><li>something that is distributed.</li><li>the frequency of occurrence or the natural geographic range or place where any item or category of items occurs.</li><li>placement, location, arrangement, or disposition.</li><li>apportionment.</li><li>the delivery or giving out of an item or items to the intended recipients, as mail or newspapers.</li><li>the total number of an item delivered, sold, or given out.</li><li>the marketing, transporting, merchandising, and selling of any item.</li><li>the way in which the suits of a deck of cards are, or one specific suit is, divided or apportioned in one player's hand or among the hands of all the players.</li><li>the division of the aggregate income of any society among its members, or among the factors of production.</li><li>the system of dispersing goods throughout a community.</li><li>a set of values or measurements of a set of elements, each measurement being associated with an element.</li><li>a generalized function used especially in solving differential equations.</li></ul>