(anatomy, geology) Remote from the point of attachment or origin. / (dentistry) Facing the wisdom tooth or temporomandibular joint on the same side of the jaw.

The act of falling in drops, or the act of pouring out in drops. / That which falls in drops. / Purification through repeated or continuous distilling; rectification.

An act of distorting. / A result of distorting. / A misrepresentation of the truth. / Noise or other artifacts caused in the electronic reproduction of sound or music.

An administrative division of an area. / An area or region marked by some distinguishing feature. / (UK) An administrative division of a county without the status of a borough.

(transitive) To divide into administrative or other districts.

(obsolete) rigorous; stringent; harsh

The federal capital region of the United States of America. The City of Washington used to be a municipality within the District of Columbia until 1871, when two entities were merged. For this reason, the district is also generally known as Washington, D.C.

(transitive) To bring something out of shape, to misshape. / (intransitive, ergative) To become misshapen. / (transitive) To give a false or misleading account of

(obsolete) Distorted; misshapen.

(probability theory, statistics) A discrete probability distribution that describes the probability of k "successes" in a sequence of n draws without replacement from a finite population.