Transmission vs. Distribution — What's the Difference?

The action or process of transmitting something or the state of being transmitted

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

The mechanism by which power is transmitted from an engine to the axle in a motor vehicle

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

The act or process of transmitting.

Something distributed; an allotment

The fact of being transmitted.

The geographic occurrence or range of an organism.

Something, such as a message, that is transmitted.

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

An assembly, as in a motor vehicle, that transmits power from an engine to a driving axle, usually having a manually or automatically adjustable mechanism to control the balance of power and speed. Also called gearbox.

(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 sending of a signal, picture, or other information from a transmitter.

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

The act of transmitting, e.g. data or electric power.

An act of distributing or state of being distributed.

The fact of being transmitted.

An apportionment by law (of funds, property).

Something that is transmitted, such as a message, picture, or a disease; the sending of such a thing.

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

(biology) The passage of a nerve impulse across synapses.

Anything distributed; portion; share.

(automotive) An assembly of gears through which power is transmitted from the engine to the driveshaft in a motor car / automobile; a gearbox.

The result of distributing; arrangement.

(legal) The right possessed by an heir or legatee of transmitting to his successor(s) any inheritance, legacy, right, or privilege, to which he is entitled, even if he should die without enjoying or exercising it.

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

(medicine, biology) The passing of a communicable disease from an infected host individual or group to a conspecific individual or group.

The frequency of occurrence or extent of existence.

The act of transmitting, or the state of being transmitted; as, the transmission of letters, writings, papers, news, and the like, from one country to another; the transmission of rights, titles, or privileges, from father to son, or from one generation to another.

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

The right possessed by an heir or legatee of transmitting to his successor or successors any inheritance, legacy, right, or privilege, to which he is entitled, even if he should die without enjoying or exercising it.

(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.

The mechanism within a vehicle which transmits rotational power from the engine to the axle of the wheel propelling the vehicle; it includes the gears and gear-changing mechanism as well as the propeller shaft.

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

The process or event of sending signals by means of a radio-frequency wave from an electronic transmitter to a receiving device.

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.

The act of sending a message; causing a message to be transmitted

(software) A set of bundled software components

Communication by means of transmitted signals

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

The fraction of radiant energy that passes through a substance

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

An incident in which an infectious disease is transmitted

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

The gears that transmit power from an automobile engine via the driveshaft to the live axle

(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.

(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.

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.

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

That which is distributed.

A resolving a whole into its parts.

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

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.

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

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

The act of distributing or spreading or apportioning

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