noun

1. a distributing or being distributed; specif.,
   1. apportionment by law (of funds, property, etc.)
   2. the process by which commodities get to final consumers, including storing, selling, shipping, and advertising
   3. frequency of occurrence or extent of existence
2. anything distributed; portion; share
3. the result of distributing; arrangement
4. Statistics the relative arrangement of the elements of a statistical population based on some criterion, as frequency, time, or location

Etymology: ME distribucioun < L distributio