Array and Distribution

noun

• An orderly arrangement.
  • usage: "an array of troops in battle order"
• An impressive display.
  • usage: "it was a bewildering array of books"; "his tools were in an orderly array on the basement wall"
• Especially fine or decorative clothing.
  • synonyms: raiment, regalia
• An arrangement of aerials spaced to give desired directional characteristics.

verb

• Lay out orderly or logically in a line or as if in a line.
  • usage: "lay out the clothes"; "lay out the arguments"
  • synonyms: range, lay out, set out
• Align oneself with a group or a way of thinking.
  • synonyms: align

• (n.) Order; a regular and imposing arrangement; disposition in regular lines; hence, order of battle; as, drawn up in battle array.
• (n.) To deck or dress; to adorn with dress; to cloth to envelop; -- applied especially to dress of a splendid kind.
• (n.) To place or dispose in order, as troops for battle; to marshal.
• (n.) The whole body of jurors summoned to attend the court.
• (n.) To set in order, as a jury, for the trial of a cause; that is, to call them man by man.
• (n.) A ranking or setting forth in order, by the proper officer, of a jury as impaneled in a cause.
• (n.) The whole body of persons thus placed in order; an orderly collection; hence, a body of soldiers.
• (n.) An imposing series of things.
• (n.) Dress; garments disposed in order upon the person; rich or beautiful apparel.
• (n.) The panel itself.

noun

• Statistics) an arrangement of values of a variable showing their observed or theoretical frequency of occurrence.
  • synonyms: statistical distribution
• The spatial or geographic property of being scattered about over a range, area, or volume.
  • usage: "worldwide in distribution"; "the distribution of nerve fibers"; "in complementary distribution"
  • synonyms: dispersion
• The act of distributing or spreading or apportioning.
• The commercial activity of transporting and selling goods from a producer to a consumer. .

• (n.) The act of distributing or dispensing; the act of dividing or apportioning among several or many; apportionment; as, the distribution of an estate among heirs or children.
• (n.) Separation into parts or classes; arrangement of anything into parts; disposition; classification.
• (n.) That which is distributed.
• (n.) The sorting of types and placing them in their proper boxes in the cases.
• (n.) A resolving a whole into its parts.
• (n.) The steps or operations by which steam is supplied to and withdrawn from the cylinder at each stroke of the piston; viz., admission, suppression or cutting off, release or exhaust, and compression of exhaust steam prior to the next admission.

Each mutual fund pays out the dividends or interest it earns and the capital gains it realizes on the sale of securities in its portfolio to all existing shareholders. Unless you own the fund through a tax-deferred or tax-free account, you owe federal income tax on income' Distribution's at your regular rate. If the fund owned a security for more than a year before selling it, federal income tax on the capital gains distribution from that security is figured at your long-term capital gains rate. But if the fund owned the security for a shorter time, you owe tax at your regular rate.

(DoD) The process of assigning military personnel to activities, units, or billets.
(DoD) The operational process of synchronizing all elements of the logistic system to deliver the "right things" to the "right place" at the "right time" to support the geographic combatant commander.
(DoD) The arrangement of troops for any purpose, such as a battle, march, or maneuver.
(DoD) A planned pattern of projectiles about a point.
(DoD) A planned spread of fire to cover a desired frontage or depth.
(DoD) An official delivery of anything, such as orders or supplies.