Word Finder - distribution

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An act of distributing or state of being distributed.

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An apportionment by law (of funds, property).

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The process by which goods get to final consumers over a geographical market, including storing, selling, shipping and advertising.

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Anything distributed; portion; share.

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The result of distributing; arrangement.

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The total number of something sold or delivered to the clients.

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The distribution of my little rock magazine is about 3,000.

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The frequency of occurrence or extent of existence.

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The apportionment of income or wealth in a population.

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The wealth distribution became extremely skewed in the kleptocracy.

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The way in which a player's hand is divided in suits, or in which a particular suit is divided between the players.

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The declarer had 3-6-2-2 distribution.

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A probability distribution; the set of relative likelihoods that a variable will have a value in a given interval.

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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.

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A set of bundled software components; distro.

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The process or result of the sale of securities, especially their placement among investors with long-term investment strategies.

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The resolution of a whole into its parts.

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The process of sorting the types and placing them in their proper boxes in the cases.

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(steam engines) The steps or operations by which steam is supplied to and withdrawn from the cylinder at each stroke of the piston: admission, suppression or cutting off, release or exhaust, and compression of exhaust steam prior to the next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.

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A rhetorical technique in which a subject is divided into multiple cases based on some property or properties, and each case is addressed individually.

The whole distribution system broke down.

We won't talk at this point about the distribution of that wealth; that will come later.

There is an optimal distribution that can be achieved.

The higher authorities and the police organized the distribution of goods left behind by the French.

The question of the distribution of this stored energy to the separate protoplasts of the plant can be seen to be the same problem as the distribution of the food.

The two conceptions which may now be said to animate the theory of geography are the genetic, which depends upon processes of origin, and the morphological, which depends on facts of form and distribution.

It is well known for its well-established, lucrative manufacturing and distribution industries.

The distribution of mountain barriers in the Old and New Worlds is in striking contrast.

It's practically halted distribution.

In attempting to account for the distribution of existing vegetation we must take into account palaeontological evidence.

The whole story points to a general distribution of flowering plants from the northern hemisphere southwards.

The distribution of weight in chemical change is readily expressed in the form of equations by the aid of these symbols; the equation 2HC1+Zn =ZnCl2+H2, for example, is to be read as meaning that from 73 parts of hydrochloric acid and 65 parts of zinc, 136 parts of zinc chloride and 2 parts of hydrogen are produced.

Bamberger (a strong supporter of the centric formula), have shown that the nature of the substituent groups influences the distribution of the fourth valencies; therefore it may be con-?

These values, however, require modification in certain cases, for discrepancies occur which can be reconciled in some cases by assuming that the atomic value of a polyvalent element varies according to the distribution of its valencies.

Amongst the breeds which are valued for the distribution of colour on the fur are the Himalayan and the Dutch.

The distribution of Clarkson's book led to his forming connexions with many persons of influence, and especially with William Wilberforce.

In Great Britain in the breeding-season it seems to affect exclusively hilly and moorland districts from Herefordshire northward, in which it partly or wholly replaces the common linnet, but is very much more local in its distribution, and, except in the British Islands and some parts of Scandinavia, it only appears as an irregular visitant in winter.

In North America rhinoceroses became extinct before the close of the Pliocene period; but in the Old World, although their geographical distribution has become greatly restricted, at least five well-marked species survive.

Special instructions and regulations determined the latitude left to each department in the distribution of the credits accorded to it among its various heads of expenditure, the degree of responsibility of the functionaries within each department and the relations regarding finance and accounts between each department and its dependencies.

France, and was fretted almost beyond endurance by the quarrels of Federalist politicians over the distribution of commissions.

This statement holds good for the Gulf of Suez, in which the water is much salter than in the open;sea; but in the Gulf of Akaba the distribution is exceedingly uniform, nowhere differing much from an average of 40.6 per mille.

Under such circumstances the earths vegetation would be very different from what it is, and the study of plant distribution would be a simple affair.

Granting that the geoid or mean surface of the ocean is a uniform spheroid, the distribution of land and water approximately indicates a division of the surface of the globe into two areas, one of elevation and one of depression.

Geomorphology is concerned, however, in the suggestions which have been made as to the cause of the distribution of heap and hollow in the larger features of the crust.

The geographical distribution of mountains is intimately associated with the great structural lines of the continents of which they form the culminating region.

The distribution of living organisms is a complex problem, a function of many factors, several of which are yet but little known.

Differences in land forms do not exert great influence on the distribution of living creatures directly, but indirectly such land forms as mountain ranges and internal drainage basins are very potent through their action on soil and climate.

The distribution of fossils frequently makes it possible to map out approximately the general features of land and sea in long-past geological periods, and so to enable the history of crustal relief to be traced.'

Australia and Polynesia By 87, 000,000 392,000,000 170,000,000 1 43, 000,000 7,000,000 influence of climate, and by the development of trade even to inhabit countries which cannot yield a food-supply, the mass of mankind is still completely under the control of those conditions which in the past determined the distribution and the mode of life of the whole human race.

The discovery and production of commodities require a knowledge of the distribution of geological formations for mineral products, of the natural distribution, life-conditions and cultivation or breeding of plants and animals and of the labour market.

In his speech Cicero briefly dismisses the charge of assassination, the main question being the distribution of the provinces, which was the real cause of the quarrels between DeIotarus and his relatives.

In this article (A) the general anatomy of birds is discussed, (B) fossil birds, (c) the geographical distribution.

The key to the distribution of recent groups lies in that of the extinct forms. Not only have many absolutely new families been discovered, but many kinds of modern birds are now known to have existed also in countries which they are now extinct.

C. Geographical Distribution The study of the extinct organisms of any country leads to a proper appreciation of its existing flora and fauna; while, on the other hand, a due consideration of the plants and animals which may predominate within its bounds cannot fail to throw more or less light on the changes it has in the course of ages undergone.

That is to say, the distribution of forms in time is a subject so much connected with the distribution of forms in space, that the one can hardly be separated from the other.

Granting this is a general truth, it must yet be acknowledged as a special fact, that in fossil birds we have as yet but scanty means of arriving at any precise results which will justify bold generalization in the matter of avine distribution.

The great problems involved in the study of geographical distribution must therefore be based mainly upon the other classes, both vertebrate and invertebrate, which, moreover, enjoy less great facilities of locomotion than the birds.

Yet it so happens that the great zoogeographical regions of the world, now more or less generally accepted, have been based upon the distribution of birds.

Tiedemann, 2 the Heidelberg anatomist, who has been generally ignored, although he surpassed many a recent zoogeographer by the wide view he took of the problem; in fact he was the first to connect distribution with environmental or bionomic factors; e.g.

Besides some occasional references in the text, only a few more of the general works dealing with the distribution of birds can here be mentioned.

Especial attention has to be drawn to the article " Geographical Distribution," in Newton's Dictionary of Birds.

The presence of bustards (Eupodotis) is a curious example of interrupted distribution, since none other of the Otididae are found nearer than India.

Sclater, and as regards the distribution of most classes of animals there have been few to doubt that it is an extremely natural one.

They are well known in cultivation, and owing to the wide distribution of the genus different methods are adopted with different species.

The lord high almoner is an ecclesiastical officer, usually a bishop, who had the rights to the forfeiture of all deodands and the goods of a felo de se, for distribution among the poor.

The Coleoptera are almost worldwide in their distribution, being represented in the Arctic regions and on almost all oceanic islands.

Most of the dominant families - such as the Carabidae (ground-beetles), Scarabaeidae (chafers), or Curculionidae (weevils) have a distribution as wide as the order.

The distribution of many groups of beetles is restricted in correspondence with their habits; the Cerambycidae (longhorns), whose larvae are wood-borers, are absent from timberless regions, and most abundant in the great tropical forests.

The beetles of the British islands afford some very interesting examples of restricted distribution among species.

Sharp, and the comparison of the species found with those of the nearest continental land, furnish the student of geographical distribution with many valuable and suggestive facts.