1. relating to or concerning the way something is distributed or spread across a population, area, or set of categories
Usage: commonly used in statistics, linguistics, and social sciences
2. of or relating to the pattern or frequency of occurrence of linguistic elements (such as words or sounds) in a language or text
Usage: linguistics and language analysis

Examples

• The study examined the distributional patterns of income across different regions.
• Linguists use distributional analysis to understand how words are used in context.
• The distributional properties of the data showed a clear skew toward higher values.
• Distributional semantics relies on the idea that words appearing in similar contexts have similar meanings.
• The researcher analyzed the distributional characteristics of the sample population.
• Distributional differences between urban and rural areas were significant in the survey.