Division vs. Distribution — What's the Difference?

The action of separating something into parts or the process of being separated

The process of marketing and supplying goods, especially to retailers.

Difference or disagreement between two or more groups, typically producing tension

(Law) The transmission of inherited property to its heirs after taxes, debts, and costs of the estate have been paid.

The process of dividing one number by another

Something distributed; an allotment

Each of the parts into which something is divided

The geographic occurrence or range of an organism.

A partition

The geographic occurrence or range of a custom, usage, or other feature.

The act or process of dividing.

(Statistics) A characterization of the occurrence of the actual unique values in a set of data (as in a frequency distribution) or of the theoretical unique values of a random variable (as in a probability distribution).

The state of having been divided.

(Mathematics) A generalized function used in the study of partial differential equations.

(Mathematics) The operation of determining how many times one quantity is contained in another; the inverse of multiplication.

An act of distributing or state of being distributed.

The proportional distribution of a quantity or entity

An apportionment by law (of funds, property).

Something, such as a boundary or partition, that serves to divide or keep separate.

The process by which goods get to final consumers over a geographical market, including storing, selling, shipping and advertising.

One of the parts, sections, or groups into which something is divided.

Anything distributed; portion; share.

An area of government or corporate activity organized as an administrative or functional unit.

The result of distributing; arrangement.

A territorial section marked off for political or governmental purposes.

The total number of something sold or delivered to the clients.

An administrative and tactical military unit that is smaller than a corps but is self-contained and equipped for prolonged combat activity.

The frequency of occurrence or extent of existence.

A group of several ships of similar type forming a tactical unit under a single command in the US Navy.

(economics) The apportionment of income or wealth in a population.

A former unit of the US Air Force that was larger than a wing and smaller than an air force.

(card games) The way in which a player's hand is divided in suits, or in which a particular suit is divided between the players.

(Botany) The taxonomic category ranking just below kingdom, consisting of one or more related classes, and corresponding approximately to a phylum in zoological classification.

A probability distribution; the set of relative likelihoods that a variable will have a value in a given interval. Category:en:Functions

A category created for purposes of competition, as in boxing.

A subset of the tangent bundle of a manifold that satisfies certain properties; used to construct the notions of integrability and foliation of a manifold.

Variance of opinion; disagreement.

(software) A set of bundled software components

A splitting into factions; disunion.

(finance) The process or result of the sale of securities, especially their placement among investors with long-term investment strategies.

The physical separation and regrouping of members of a parliament according to their stand on an issue put to vote.

(logic) The resolution of a whole into its parts.

(Biology) Cell division.

The process of sorting the types and placing them in their proper boxes in the cases.

A type of propagation characteristic of plants that spread by means of newly formed parts such as bulbs, suckers, or rhizomes.

(steam engines) 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.

(uncountable) The act or process of dividing anything.

(rhetoric) A rhetorical technique in which a subject is divided into multiple cases based on some property or properties, and each case is addressed individually.

Each of the separate parts of something resulting from division.

The act of distributing or dispensing; the act of dividing or apportioning among several or many; apportionment; as, the distribution of an estate among heirs or children.

The process of dividing a number by another.

Separation into parts or classes; arrangement of anything into parts; disposition; classification.

(arithmetic) A calculation that involves this process.

That which is distributed.

(military) A formation, usually made up of two or three brigades.

A resolving a whole into its parts.

A usually high-level section of a large company or conglomerate.

The sorting of types and placing them in their proper boxes in the cases.

(taxonomy) A rank below kingdom and above class, particularly used of plants or fungi, also (particularly of animals) called a phylum; a taxon at that rank.

The steps or operations by which steam is supplied to and withdrawn from the cylinder at each stroke of the piston; viz., admission, suppression or cutting off, release or exhaust, and compression of exhaust steam prior to the next admission.

A disagreement; a difference of viewpoint between two sides of an argument.

(statistics) an arrangement of values of a variable showing their observed or theoretical frequency of occurrence

(government) A method by which a legislature is separated into groups in order to take a better estimate of vote than a voice vote.

The spatial property of being scattered about over an area or volume

(music) A florid instrumental variation of a melody in the 17th and 18th centuries, originally conceived as the dividing of each of a succession of long notes into several short ones.

The act of distributing or spreading or apportioning

(music) A set of pipes in a pipe organ which are independently controlled and supplied.

The commercial activity of transporting and selling goods from a producer to a consumer

(legal) A concept whereby a common group of debtors are only responsible for their proportionate sum of the total debt.

(computing) Any of the four major parts of a COBOL program source code.

A lesson; a class.

(Australia) A parliamentary constituency.

The act or process of diving anything into parts, or the state of being so divided; separation.

That which divides or keeps apart; a partition.

The portion separated by the divining of a mass or body; a distinct segment or section.

Disunion; difference in opinion or feeling; discord; variance; alienation.

Difference of condition; state of distinction; distinction; contrast.

Separation of the members of a deliberative body, esp. of the Houses of Parliament, to ascertain the vote.

The process of finding how many times one number or quantity is contained in another; the reverse of multiplication; also, the rule by which the operation is performed.

The separation of a genus into its constituent species.

Two or more brigades under the command of a general officer.

One of the groups into which a fleet is divided.

A course of notes so running into each other as to form one series or chain, to be sung in one breath to one syllable.

The distribution of a discourse into parts; a part so distinguished.

A grade or rank in classification; a portion of a tribe or of a class; or, in some recent authorities, equivalent to a subkingdom.

An army unit large enough to sustain combat;

One of the portions into which something is regarded as divided and which together constitute a whole;

The act or process of dividing

An administrative unit in government or business

An arithmetic operation that is the inverse of multiplication; the quotient of two numbers is computed

Discord that splits a group

A league ranked by quality;

(biology) a group of organisms forming a subdivision of a larger category

(botany) taxonomic unit of plants corresponding to a phylum

A unit of the United States Air Force usually comprising two or more wings

A group of ships of similar type

The act of dividing or partitioning; separation by the creation of a boundary that divides or keeps apart