1. Partage. Répartition des bénéfices.
2. Distribution. Répartition par catégorie.
3. (Électricité) Dispatching.
ETYM Cf. French apportionnement, Late Lat. apportionamentum.
The act of apportioning; a dividing into just proportions or shares; a division or shares; a division and assignment, to each proprietor, of his just portion of an undivided right or property.
ETYM Latin distributio: cf. French distribution.
1. An arrangement of values of a variable showing their observed or theoretical frequency of occurrence.
2. The act of distributing or spreading or apportioning.
3. The commercial activity of transporting and selling goods from a producer to a consumer.
4. The spatial property of being scattered about over an area or volume; SYN. dispersion.
ETYM French division, Latin divisio, from dividere. Related to Divide.
1. Separation by the creation of a boundary that divides or keeps apart; SYN. partition, partitioning, segmentation, subdivision, sectionalization.
2. The act or process of dividing or splitting.
3. (Biology) A group of organisms forming a subdivision of a larger category.
4. (Botany) Taxonomic unit of plants corresponding to a phylum.
5. An administrative unit in government or business.
6. An arithmetic operation that is the inverse of multiplication; the quotient of two numbers is computed.
7. Discord that splits a group; SYN. variance.
8. An army unit large enough to sustain combat.
9. A group of ships of similar type.
10. A unit of the US air force usually comprising two or more wings.
ETYM Written also parcelling.
1. The act of dividing and distributing in portions or parts.
2. Long, narrow slips of canvas daubed with tar and wound about a rope like a bandage.
1. Distribution
2. A second or additional dividing or distribution