| 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 |
Old World beaver
Castor fiber | a European variety of beaver |
| fiber fibre vulcanized fiber | a leatherlike material made by compressing layers of paper or cloth |
fiber optic cable
fibre optic cable | a cable made of optical fibers that can transmit large amounts of information at the speed of light |
fiber-optic transmission system
fibre-optic transmission system
FOTS | a communication system using fiber optic cables |
optical fiber
glass fiber
optical fibre
glass fibre | a very thin fiber made of glass that functions as a waveguide for light, used in bundles to transmit images |
character fiber
fibre | the inherent complex of attributes that determines a persons moral and ethical actions and reactions, education has for its object the formation of character- Herbert Spencer |
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 |
diameter
diam | the length of a straight line passing through the center of a circle and connecting two points on the circumference |
fiber
fibre | any of several elongated, threadlike cells (especially a muscle fiber or a nerve fiber) |
| Purkinje fiber | a specialized cardiac muscle fiber that is part of the Purkinje network |
muscle cell
muscle fiber
muscle fibre | an elongated contractile cell that forms the muscles of the body |
striated muscle cell
striated muscle fiber | an elongated contractile cell in striated muscle tissue |
nerve fiber
nerve fibre | a threadlike extension of a nerve cell |
medullated nerve fiber
myelinated nerve fiber | a nerve fiber encased in a sheath of myelin |
motor neuron
efferent neuron
motor nerve fiber
motoneuron | a neuron conducting impulses outwards from the brain or spinal cord |
motor fiber
efferent fiber | a nerve fiber that carries impulses toward the muscles or glands |
sensory fiber
afferent fiber | a nerve fiber that carries impulses toward the central nervous system |
fiber bundle
fibre bundle
fascicle
fasciculus | a bundle of fibers (especially nerve fibers) |
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 |
fiber optics
fiberoptics
fibre optics
fibreoptics | the transmission of light signals via glass fibers |
| distribution list | list of names to whom a communication should be sent |
| distribution agreement | a contract governing the marketing of an item of merchandise |
roughage
fiber | coarse, indigestible plant food low in nutrients, its bulk stimulates intestinal peristalsis |
| bast bast fiber | strong woody fibers obtained especially from the phloem of from various plants |
| distribution cost | any cost incurred by a producer or wholesaler or retailer or distributor (as for advertising and shipping etc) |
| diameter | a straight line connecting the center of a circle with two points on its perimeter (or the center of a sphere with two points on its surface) |
fiber
fibre | a slender and greatly elongated substance capable of being spun into yarn |
cotton cotton fiber
cotton wool | soft silky fibers from cotton plants in their raw state |
man-made fiber
synthetic fiber | fiber created from natural materials or by chemical processes |
natural fiber
natural fibre | fiber derived from plants or animals |
animal fiber
animal fibre | fiber derived from animals |
plant fiber
plant fibre | fiber derived from plants |
acrylic fiber
acrylic | polymerized from acrylonitrile |
| polyester fiber | a quick-drying resilient synthetic fiber consisting primarily of polyester |
staple staple fiber
staple fibre | a natural fiber (raw cotton, wool, hemp, flax) that can be twisted to form yarn, staple fibers vary widely in length |
fiber-optic
fiberoptic
fibre-optic
fibreoptic | of or relating to fiber optics |