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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Allocation \Al`lo*ca"tion\, n. [LL. allocatio: cf. F.
allocation.]
1. The act of putting one thing to another; a placing;
disposition; arrangement. --Hallam.
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2. An allotment or apportionment; as, an allocation of shares
in a company.
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The allocation of the particular portions of
Palestine to its successive inhabitants. --A. R.
Stanley.
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3. The admission of an item in an account, or an allowance
made upon an account; -- a term used in the English
exchequer.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 (August 2003) [wn]:
allocation
n 1: a share set aside for a specific purpose [syn: {allotment}]
2: the act of distributing by allotting or apportioning;
distribution according to a plan; "the apportionment of
seats in the House of Representatives is based on the
relative population of each state" [syn: {allotment},
{apportionment}, {apportioning}, {parceling},
{parcelling}, {assignation}]
3: (computer science) the assignment of particular areas of a
magnetic disk to particular data or instructions
From English-German Freedict dictionary [fd-eng-deu]:
allocation [æləkeiʃən]
Belegung; Besetzung; Speicherverteilung; Verteilung; Zuordnung; Zuteilung; Zuweisung
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