allocation

• A share set aside for a specific purpose (synset 113310490)
  hypernym: part, percentage, portion, share - assets belonging to or due to or contributed by an individual person or group
  hyponym:

  • reallocation - a share that has been allocated again
  • quota - a proportional share assigned to each participant
  synonym: allotment
• The act of distributing by allotting or apportioning
  Distribution according to a plan (synset 101085569)
  hypernym: distribution - the act of distributing or spreading or apportioning
  hyponym:

  • grant, subsidisation, subsidization - the act of providing a subsidy
  • reallocation, reallotment, reapportionment - a new apportionment (especially a new apportionment of congressional seats in the United States on the basis of census results)
  • deal - the act of apportioning or distributing something
  • rationing - the act of rationing
  • parcel, portion, share - the allotment of some amount by dividing something
  synonym: allotment, apportioning, apportionment, assignation, parceling, parcelling
• (computer science) the assignment of particular areas of a magnetic disk to particular data or instructions (synset 100165400)
  domain category: computer science, computing - the branch of engineering science that studies (with the aid of computers) computable processes and structures
  hypernym: assigning, assignment - the act of distributing something to designated places or persons
  synonym: storage allocation

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