| NOUN | possession | allocation, allotment | a share set aside for a specific purpose |
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| act | allocation, allotment, apportionment, apportioning, parceling, parcelling, assignation | the act of distributing by allotting / allotting or apportioning | |
| act | allocation, storage allocation | (computer science) the assignment of particular areas of a magnetic disk to particular data or instructions |
| Sounds | ae.lahkey'shahn | |
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| Rhymes | Aachen ... Zukerman: 2572 rhymes with ahn... | |
| Meaning | A share set aside for a specific purpose. | |
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| Synonym | allotment | |
| Narrower | quota | A proportional share assigned to each participant |
| reallocation | A share that has been allocated again | |
| Broader | share, portion, part, percentage | assets belonging to or due to or contributed by an individual person or group |
| Spanish | asignación | |
| Catalan | assignació, distribució | |
| Verbs | allocate | distribute according to a plan or set apart for a special purpose |
| Meaning | The act of distributing by allotting / allotting or apportioning; distribution according to a plan. | |
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| Synonyms | allotment, apportionment, apportioning, parceling, parcelling, assignation | |
| Narrower | deal | The act of apportioning or distributing something |
| grant, subsidization, subsidisation | The act of providing a subsidy | |
| parcel, portion, share | The allotment of some amount by dividing something | |
| rationing | The act of rationing | |
| reallotment, reapportionment, reallocation | A new apportionment (especially a new apportionment of congressional seats in the United States on the basis of census results) | |
| Broader | distribution | The act of distributing or spreading or apportioning |
| Spanish | asignación, distribución, erogación, parcelación, prorrateo, repartimiento, reparto | |
| Catalan | erogació, parcel·lació, prorrateig, repartició, repartiment | |
| Verbs | allocate | distribute according to a plan or set apart for a special purpose |
| Meaning | (computer science) the assignment of particular areas of a magnetic disk to particular data or instructions. | |
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| Synonym | storage allocation | |
| Category | computer science, computing | The branch of engineering science that studies (with the aid of computers) computable processes and structures |
| Broader | assignment, assigning | The act of distributing something to designated / designated places or persons |
| Verbs | allocate | distribute according to a plan or set apart for a special purpose |
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