noun

1. (law) the act of disposing of property by virtue of the power of appointment

e.g. she allocated part of the trust to her church by appointment

2. the act of putting a person into a non-elective position

e.g. the appointment had to be approved by the whole committee

Synonym: assignmentdesignationnaming

3. the job to which you are (or hope to be) appointed

e.g. he applied for an appointment in the treasury

4. (usually plural) furnishings and equipment (especially for a ship or hotel)

Synonym: fitting

5. a meeting arranged in advance

e.g. she asked how to avoid kissing at the end of a date

Synonym: dateengagement

6. a person who is appointed to a job or position

Synonym: appointee

noun

1. (biology) the basic structural and functional unit of all organisms
they may exist as independent units of life (as in monads) or may form colonies or tissues as in higher plants and animals

2. a device that delivers an electric current as the result of a chemical reaction

Synonym: electric cell

3. a room where a prisoner is kept

Synonym: jail cellprison cell

4. small room in which a monk or nun lives

Synonym: cubicle

5. any small compartment

e.g. the cells of a honeycomb

6. a hand-held mobile radiotelephone for use in an area divided into small sections, each with its own short-range transmitter/receiver

Synonym: cellular telephonecellular phonecellphonemobile phone

7. a small unit serving as part of or as the nucleus of a larger political movement

Synonym: cadre

noun

1. the act of distributing or spreading or apportioning

2. the commercial activity of transporting and selling goods from a producer to a consumer

3. the spatial or geographic property of being scattered about over a range, area, or volume

e.g. worldwide in distribution
the distribution of nerve fibers
in complementary distribution

Synonym: dispersion

4. (statistics) an arrangement of values of a variable showing their observed or theoretical frequency of occurrence

Synonym: statistical distribution