distribute
verb
/dɪˈstɹɪbjut/
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/dɪˈstɹɪbjuːt/
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/ˈdɪstɹɪbjuːt/
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- (transitive) To divide into portions and dispense.
- (transitive) To deliver or pass out.
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distribuer
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- (transitive) To supply to retail outlets.
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distribuer,
répartir
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- (transitive) To apportion (more or less evenly).
- (transitive) To classify or separate into categories.
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répartir
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- (transitive) To scatter or spread.
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répartir,
distribuer
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distribution
noun
/ˌdɪstɹəˈbjuːʃən/
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- An act of distributing or state of being distributed.
- An apportionment by law (of funds, property).
- (business, marketing) The process by which goods get to final consumers over a geographical market, including storing, selling, shipping and advertising.
- The frequency of occurrence or extent of existence.
- (mathematics, statistics) A probability distribution; the set of relative likelihoods that a variable will have a value in a given interval.
- (mathematics, differential geometry) A subset of the tangent bundle of a manifold that satisfies certain properties; used to construct the notions of integrability and foliation of a manifold.
- (printing, historical) The process of sorting the types and placing them in their proper boxes in the cases.
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distribution
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distributive
adjective
/dɪsˈtɹɪbjʊtɪv/
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- (mathematics) A property of functions that have a rule describing how the function can be performed to the individual components of another operation.
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distributif
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distributivity
noun
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- (mathematics) the fact of being distributive
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distributivité
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