Taking one pile and spreading it out to many places — handing pieces out from a center so they end up scattered across people, shops, or an area. The single source, the many destinations, and the spreading-out in between stay constant across all the senses.
From the word’s history
From Latin 'distribuere' — 'dis-' (apart, in different directions) + 'tribuere' (to give, allot): 'to give out in different directions'. The modern core of spreading one source out to many places sits directly on that root.
源自拉丁文 distribuere，由 dis-（往四面、分開）加 tribuere（給、分派）組成，字面就是「往不同方向分送出去」。今天「從一個源頭散到許多地方」這個核心，正好坐落在這個字根上。
Online Etymology Dictionary (etymonline.com), entry 'distribute'
登入就可以看每一支怎麼連回核心畫面。
原始詞典資料17 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
distributionnoun/ˌdɪstɹɪˈbjuːʃən/
- 1
An act of distributing or state of being distributed.
- 2
An apportionment by law (of funds, property).
- 3
businessmarketingThe process by which goods get to final consumers over a geographical market, including storing, selling, shipping and advertising.
- 4
Anything distributed; portion; share.
- December 6, 1709, Francis Atterbury, a sermon preach'd before the sons of the clergy at their anniversary-meeting in the Church of St. Paul our charitable distributions
- 5
The result of distributing; arrangement.
- A group of Thai researchers found the spider during an expedition to Phang-Nga province in southern Thailand to research the diversity and distribution of tarantulas in the country.
- To specify the effect of flutter with one figure can be extremely misleading, for it says nothing about the distribution of flutter in the spectrum of interest.
- 6
The total number of something sold or delivered to the clients.
- 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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economicssciencesThe apportionment of income or wealth in a population.
- The wealth distribution became extremely skewed in the kleptocracy.
另外 9 個記錄的用法
- 9
card-gamesgamesThe way in which a player's hand is divided in suits, or in which a particular suit is divided between the players.
- The declarer had 3-6-2-2 distribution.
- 10
mathematicssciencesstatisticsA probability distribution; the set of relative likelihoods that a variable will have a value in a given interval.
- In fact, NALP has been at the forefront of educating prospective lawyers on the dangers of focusing on “average” starting salaries. The average is meaningless. The median is just slightly more helpful, and NALP has been begging people to pay attention to the bimodal salary distribution curve that tells the true story of how much lawyers are likely to get paid.
- The criterion for positivity was determined for each antigen of each species applying a mixture model to the PP data which assumed two inherent Gaussian distributions: a narrow distribution or seronegatives, and a broader distribution of seropositives.
- 11
mathematicssciencesA 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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computingengineeringmathematicsA set of bundled software components.
- a Linux distribution
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businessfinanceThe process or result of the sale of securities, especially their placement among investors with long-term investment strategies.
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human-scienceslogicmathematicsThe resolution of a whole into its parts.
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historicalmediaprintingpublishingThe process of sorting the types and placing them in their proper boxes in the cases.
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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.
- 17
A rhetorical technique in which a subject is divided into multiple cases based on some property or properties, and each case is addressed individually.
- It is alſo called a diſtribucion, when we diuide the whole, into ſeuerall partes, and ſaie we haue foure poynctes, whereof we purpoſe to ſpeake, compꝛehendyng our whole talke within compaſſe of theſame.
- Diſtribution, in Rhetoric, a Kind of Deſcription; or a Figure, whereby an orderly Diviſion, and Enumeration is made of the principal Qualities of a Subject.
摘錄自 英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary，已精簡格式；依 CC BY-SA 4.0 授權使用，改動後的內容同樣以此授權提供。