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distribution
A	noun
	1	distribution
				the act of distributing or spreading or apportioning
		Category Tree: act; human action; human activity ╚distribution ╚sharing; share-out ╚revenue sharing ╚deal ╚allotment; apportionment; apportioning; allocation; parceling; parcelling; assignation ╚dispensation ╚redistribution ╚assignment; assigning
	2	distribution
				the commercial activity of transporting and selling goods from a producer to a consumer
		Category Tree: act; human action; human activity ╚group action ╚transaction; dealing; dealings ╚commerce; commercialism; mercantilism ╚distribution
	3	distribution, dispersion
				the spatial property of being scattered about over an area or volume
		Category Tree: abstraction ╚relation ╚position; spatial relation ╚placement; arrangement ╚spacing; spatial arrangement ╚distribution, dispersion ╚scatter; spread ╚innervation ╚dissemination; diffusion ╚diaspora ╚complementary distribution; complementation
	4	distribution, statistical distribution
				(statistics) an arrangement of values of a variable showing their observed or theoretical frequency of occurrence
		Category Tree: psychological feature ╚cognition; knowledge; noesis ╚structure ╚arrangement; organization; organisation; system ╚distribution, statistical distribution ╚binomial distribution; Bernoulli distribution ╚sample distribution; sample; sampling ╚Poisson distribution ╚normal distribution; Gaussian distribution ╚frequency distribution ╚equidsitribution

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