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distribution

In statistics, the pattern of frequency for a set of data. This pattern can be displayed as a frequency diagram.

distribution

In commerce, the process by which goods are sent from manufacturers through to the consumer. Channels of distribution usually involve both wholesalers and retailers. Distribution or place is one of the four elements (or four Ps) of the marketing mix. It is important for a business to get its product distributed in the right outlets if it is to generate sales at the right price.



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Beagle,' as naturalist, I was much struck with certain facts in the distribution of the inhabitants of South America, and in the geological relations of the present to the past inhabitants of that continent.
The Origin of Species by Darwin, Charles View in context
Above all things, order, and distribution, and singling out of parts, is the life of dispatch; so as the distribution be not too subtle: for he that doth not divide, will never enter well into business; and he that divideth too much, will never come out of it clearly.
The Essays by Bacon, Sir Francis View in context
The gentle master stevedore had his hands very full at last; and the chief mate became worried in his mind as to the proper distribution of the weight of his first cargo in a ship he did not personally know before.
The Mirror of the Sea by Conrad, Joseph View in context
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