distributional

Thân thiện

The map shows the distributional patterns of rainfall across the continent.

Definition

Adjective: 1. Relating to the way something is spread or arranged across an area or among a group: Specifically concerning the spatial or geographical arrangement of items, people, or phenomena. 2. Pertaining to the statistical or proportional allocation of characteristics within a defined set: Often used in contexts like economics, linguistics, or ecology to describe how properties are spread across members of a population.

Usage

The adjective "distributional" is used to modify nouns, indicating that the focus is on the pattern, manner, or analysis of how something is distributed. * It is commonly used in academic, scientific, and technical writing. * It describes the nature of a distribution itself, not the act of distributing.

Examples

• Academic Context:
  • The study analyzed the distributional patterns of bird species across the continent.
  • Linguists are interested in the distributional properties of sounds within a language.
• Economic/Social Context:
  • The new tax policy had significant distributional effects, benefiting low-income households.
  • We must consider the distributional impact of the economic crisis on different regions.
• General Context:
  • The map shows the distributional density of population centers.

Advanced Usage

• Distributional Analysis: An examination focused on how quantities or qualities are spread out.
  • A distributional analysis of income reveals growing inequality.
• Distributional Assumption (in statistics): A premise about the underlying probability distribution of data.
  • The model's validity depends on its distributional assumptions.

Variants and Related Words

• Distribute (verb): To give out or spread something.
• Distribution (noun): The act of distributing or the state of being distributed; the spatial arrangement of something.
• Distributive (adjective): Concerned with the individual allocation of things to members of a group. (Note: "Distributive" often relates to the act or principle of dividing, while "distributional" relates to the pattern or analysis of the result.)

Synonyms

• Allocative
• Dispersive
• Proportional

Antonyms

• Concentrated
• Aggregated
• Collective (in some contexts)

Related Phrases/Concepts

• Distributional Justice: A concept in philosophy and economics concerning the fairness of how goods and burdens are distributed in a society.
  • The debate centered on issues of distributional justice.
• Distributional Semantics (in computational linguistics): A theory that the meaning of a word is defined by its context and the company it keeps in large samples of language.
  • Distributional semantics models word meaning based on statistical patterns.

Học thuật

Adjective

1. of or relating to spatial distribution
   • distributional requirements