dispersal vs distribution

dispersal

noun
  • The act or result of dispersing or scattering; dispersion. 

  • A dispersal prison. 

distribution

noun
  • An act of distributing or state of being distributed. 

  • An apportionment by law (of funds, property). 

  • 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. 

  • The steps or operations by which steam is supplied to and withdrawn from the cylinder at each stroke of the piston: admission, suppression or cutting off, release or exhaust, and compression of exhaust steam prior to the next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

  • The result of distributing; arrangement. 

  • The apportionment of income or wealth in a population. 

  • Anything distributed; portion; share. 

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

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

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

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

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

  • A set of bundled software components 

  • The resolution of a whole into its parts. 

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

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

  • The frequency of occurrence or extent of existence. 

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