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Noun: distribution law
  1. (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
    "The Maxwell-Boltzmann distribution is an example of a distribution law in statistical mechanics"

Derived forms: distribution laws

Type of: law, law of nature

Encyclopedia: Distribution law