distribution

noun

1. Anything distributed; portion; share.
2. The result of distributing; arrangement.
3. The total number of something sold or delivered to the clients.
4. The frequency of occurrence or extent of existence.
5. The apportionment of income or wealth in a population.
6. The way in which a player's hand is divided in suits, or in which a particular suit is divided between the players.
7. A probability distribution; the set of relative likelihoods that a variable will have a value in a given interval.
8. 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.
9. A set of bundled software components.
10. The process or result of the sale of securities, especially their placement among investors with long-term investment strategies.
11. The resolution of a whole into its parts.
12. The steps or operations by which steam is supplied to and withdrawn from the cylinder at each stroke of the piston: admission, suppression or cutting off, release or exhaust, and compression of exhaust steam prior to the next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.
13. A rhetorical technique in which a subject is divided into multiple cases based on some property or properties, and each case is addressed individually.
14. (historical) The process of sorting the types and placing them in their proper boxes in the cases.