Shipping vs. Distribution

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

Shippingnoun

The transportation of goods.

Distributionnoun

An act of distributing or state of being distributed.

Shippingnoun

The body of ships belonging to one nation, port or industry.

Distributionnoun

An apportionment by law (of funds, property).

Shippingnoun

Passage or transport on a ship.

Distributionnoun

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

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Shippingnoun

The cost of sending an item or package via postal services.

Distributionnoun

The frequency of occurrence or extent of existence.

Shippingnoun

Navigation.

Distributionnoun

Anything distributed; portion; share.

Shippingverb

present participle of ship

Distributionnoun

The result of distributing; arrangement.

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Shippingnoun

the commercial enterprise of transporting goods and materials

Distributionnoun

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

Shippingnoun

conveyance provided by the ships belonging to one country or industry

Distributionnoun

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

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(steam engines) The steps or operations by which steam is supplied to and withdrawn from the cylinder at each stroke of the piston: admission, suppression or cutting off, release or exhaust, and compression of exhaust steam prior to the next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