noun

• 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.
• 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.
• (economics) The apportionment of income or wealth in a population.
• (card games) The way in which a player's hand is divided in suits, or in which a particular suit is divided between the players.
• (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.
• (software) A set of bundled software components.
• (finance) The process or result of the sale of securities, especially their placement among investors with long-term investment strategies.
• (logic) The resolution of a whole into its parts.
• (printing, historical) The process of sorting the types and placing them in their proper boxes in the cases.
• (steam engines) The steps or operations by which steam is supplied to and withdrawn from the cylinder at each stroke of the piston: admission, suppression or cutting off, release or exhaust, and compression of exhaust steam prior to the next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.
• (rhetoric) A rhetorical technique in which a subject is divided into multiple cases based on some property or properties, and each case is addressed individually.