An act of distributing or state of being distributed. • An apportionment by law (of funds, property). • The process by which goods get to final consumers over a geographical market, including storing, selling, shipping and advertising. • Anything distributed; portion; share. • The result of distributing; arrangement. • The total number of something sold or delivered to the clients. • The frequency of occurrence or extent of existence. • The apportionment of income or wealth in a population. • The way in which a player's hand is divided in suits, or in which a particular suit is divided between the players. • A probability distribution; the set of relative likelihoods that a variable will have a value in a given interval. • 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. • A set of bundled software components. • The process or result of the sale of securities, especially their placement among investors with long-term investment strategies. • The resolution of a whole into its parts. • The process of sorting the types and placing them in their proper boxes in the cases. • The steps or operations by which steam is supplied to and withdrawn from the cylinder at each stroke of the piston: admission, suppression or cutting off, release or exhaust, and compression of exhaust steam prior to the next admission. • A rhetorical technique in which a subject is divided into multiple cases based on some property or properties, and each case is addressed individually.