Dissemination vs. Distribution

Dissemination vs. Distribution — Is There a Difference?
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Difference Between Dissemination and Distribution

Disseminationnoun

The act of disseminating, or the state of being disseminated; diffusion for propagation and permanence; a scattering or spreading abroad, as of ideas, beliefs, etc.

Distributionnoun

An act of distributing or state of being distributed.

Disseminationnoun

the opening of a subject to widespread discussion and debate

Distributionnoun

An apportionment by law (of funds, property).

Disseminationnoun

the property of being diffused or dispersed

Distributionnoun

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

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Disseminationnoun

the act of dispersing or diffusing something;

the dispersion of the troopsthe diffusion of knowledge

Distributionnoun

The frequency of occurrence or extent of existence.

Distributionnoun

Anything distributed; portion; share.

Distributionnoun

The result of distributing; arrangement.

Distributionnoun

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

Distributionnoun

(computing) A set of bundled software components; distro.

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Distributionnoun

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

The wealth distribution became extremely skewed in the kleptocracy.

Distributionnoun

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

Distributionnoun

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

Distributionnoun

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

Distributionnoun

(steam engines) The steps or operations by which steam is supplied to and withdrawn from the cylinder at each stroke of the piston: admission, suppression or cutting off, release or exhaust, and compression of exhaust steam prior to the next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

Distributionnoun

(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.

Distributionnoun

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

Distributionnoun

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

Distributionnoun

the act of distributing or spreading or apportioning

Distributionnoun

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