lipectomy
selective lipectomy | plastic surgery involving the breakdown and removal of fatty tissue |
| distribution | the act of distributing or spreading or apportioning |
| distribution | the commercial activity of transporting and selling goods from a producer to a consumer |
distribution channel
channel | a way of selling a company's product either directly or via distributors, possible distribution channels are wholesalers or small retailers or retail chains or direct mailers or your own stores |
conscription
muster
draft selective service | compulsory military service |
spot jamming
selective jamming | electronic jamming of a specific channel or frequency |
selective-serotonin reuptake inhibitor
SSRI | an antidepressant drug that acts by blocking the reuptake of serotonin so that more serotonin is available to act on receptors in the brain |
distribution
dispersion | the spatial or geographic property of being scattered about over a range, area, or volume, worldwide in distribution, the distribution of nerve fibers, in complementary distribution |
complementary distribution
complementation | (linguistics) a distribution of related speech sounds or forms in such a way that they only appear in different contexts |
information
selective information
entropy | (communication theory) a numerical measure of the uncertainty of an outcome, the signal contained thousands of bits of information |
| selective amnesia | amnesia about particular events that is very convenient for the person who cannot remember, why do politicians always develop selective amnesia when questioned about their transgressions? |
distribution
statistical distribution | (statistics) an arrangement of values of a variable showing their observed or theoretical frequency of occurrence |
| distribution law | (chemistry) the total energy in an assembly of molecules is not distributed equally but is distributed around an average value according to a statistical distribution |
Maxwell-Boltzmann distribution law
Boltzmann distribution law | (physics) a law expressing the distribution of energy among the molecules of a gas in thermal equilibrium |
nonparametric statistic
distribution free statistic | a statistic computed without knowledge of the form or the parameters of the distribution from which observations are drawn |
| frequency distribution | a distribution of observed frequencies of occurrence of the values of a variable |
normal distribution
Gaussian distribution | a theoretical distribution with finite mean and variance |
| Poisson distribution | a theoretical distribution that is a good approximation to the binomial distribution when the probability is small and the number of trials is large |
sample distribution
sample sampling | items selected at random from a population and used to test hypotheses about the population |
binomial distribution
Bernoulli distribution | a theoretical distribution of the number of successes in a finite set of independent trials with a constant probability of success |
| distribution list | list of names to whom a communication should be sent |
| distribution agreement | a contract governing the marketing of an item of merchandise |
Selective Service
Selective Service System
SSS | an independent federal agency that administers compulsory military service |
| distribution cost | any cost incurred by a producer or wholesaler or retailer or distributor (as for advertising and shipping etc) |
| selective | tending to select, characterized by careful choice, an exceptionally quick and selective reader- John Mason Brown |
| selective | characterized by very careful or fastidious selection, the school was very selective in its admissions |