What is another word for distributions?

Pronunciation: [dˌɪstɹɪbjˈuːʃənz] (IPA)

Distributions refer to the way something is spread out or divided among a group of people or things. However, there are several synonyms for the word distributions that can be used in different contexts. For instance, allocation refers to the act of distributing things according to a plan. Apportionment is another synonym that implies the division of a larger sum of money or resources among different groups. Dispensation suggests the giving out of something, like favors or benefits, to specific individuals. Meanwhile, dissemination refers to the widespread distribution of information or ideas. Overall, using varied synonyms for distributions can help add variety and depth to your writing or conversation.

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Usage examples for Distributions

They did not believe with the Manchester school that the existing distribution of wealth was the best of all possible distributions, because it was the distribution which Nature herself produced.
"Contemporary Socialism"
John Rae
The dislike to frequent distributions is growing, on the obvious and very reasonable ground that they either discourage a man from doing well by his land, or they inflict on him the grave injustice of depriving him of the ground he has himself improved before he has reaped from it the due reward of his labour.
"Contemporary Socialism"
John Rae
Outside the aerial we have variations and distributions of electric strain and magnetic flux.
"Hertzian Wave Wireless Telegraphy"
John Ambrose Fleming

Famous quotes with Distributions

  • Real equality is immensely difficult to achieve, it needs continual revision and monitoring of distributions. And it does not provide buffers between members, so they are continually colliding or frustrating each other.
    Mary Douglas
  • One important measurement issue concerns the fat tails problem that I mentioned earlier. VAR is concerned with extreme outcomes. If the tails of the probability distributions we are using are too thin, our VAR measures are likely to be too low.
    John Hull
  • Exercise ferments the humors, casts them into their proper channels, throws off redundancies, and helps nature in those secret distributions, without which the body cannot subsist in its vigor, nor the soul act with cheerfulness.
    Joseph Addison
  • The actual effect of Rawls’s theory is to undercut theoretically any straightforward appeal to egalitarianism. Egalitarianism has the advantage that gross failure to comply with its basic principles is not difficult to monitor, There are, to be sure, well-known and unsettled issues about comparability of resources and about whether resources are really the proper objects for egalitarians to be concerned with, but there can be little doubt that if person A in a fully monetarized society has ten thousand times the monetary resources of person B, then under normal circumstances the two are not for most politically relevant purposes “equal.” Rawls’s theory effectively shifts discussion away from the utilitarian discussion of the consequences of a certain distribution of resources, and also away from an evaluation of distributions from the point of view of strict equality; instead, he focuses attention on a complex counterfactual judgment. The question is not “Does A have grossly more than B?”—a judgment to which within limits it might not be impossible to get a straightforward answer—but rather the virtually unanswerable “Would B have even less if A had less?” One cannot even begin to think about assessing any such claim without making an enormous number of assumptions about scarcity of various resources, the form the particular economy in question had, the preferences, and in particular the incentive structure, of the people who lived in it and unless one had a rather robust and detailed economic theory of a kind that few people will believe any economist today has. In a situation of uncertainty like this, the actual political onus probandi in fact tacitly shifts to the have-nots; the “haves” lack an obvious systematic motivation to argue for redistribution of the excess wealth they own, or indeed to find arguments to that conclusion plausible. They don't in the same way need to prove anything; they, ex hypothesi, “have” the resources in question: “Beati possidentes.”
    Raymond Geuss
  • […] the law itself is arbitrary—a product of history, just like all other distributions of property. We support it because it's stable, and we like stability.
    Curtis Yarvin

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