Distributional

dis·tri·bu·tion  (dstr-byshn)

n.

1. The act of distributing or the condition of being distributed; apportionment.

2. Something distributed; an allotment.

3. The act of dispersing or the condition of being dispersed; diffusion.

4.

a. The geographic occurrence or range of an organism.

b. The geographic occurrence or range of a custom, usage, or other feature.

5. Division into categories; classification.

6. The process of marketing and supplying goods, especially to retailers.

7. A spatial or temporal array of objects or events: the distribution of theaters on Broadway.

8. Law The division of an estate or property among rightful heirs.

9. Statistics A set of numbers and their frequency of occurrence collected from measurements over a statistical population.

10. Mathematics A generalized function used in the study of partial differential equations.

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distri·bution·al adj.

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Adj.

1.

distributional - of or relating to spatial distribution; "distributional requirements"