Definitions of Frequency distribution on the Web:

    The organization of data to show how often certain values or ranges of 
values occur.
    biz.yahoo.com/glossary/bfglosf.html

    A complete summary of the frequencies of the values or categories of a 
variable; often displayed in a two column table: the left column lists the 
individual values or categories, the right column indicates the number of 
observations in each category.
    www.cdc.gov/nccdphp/drh/epi_gloss.htm

    A frequency distribution shows the number of observations falling into 
each of several ranges of values. Frequency distributions are portrayed as 
frequency tables, histograms or polygons.
    www.cirem.org.uk/definitions.html

    A distribution in which the values of the dependent variable are 
tabled or plotted against their frequency of occurrence.
    www.uvm.edu/~dhowell/StatPages/Fundamentals/Glossary.html

    A tabulation of the number of occurrences of individual elements in a 
body of text or key.
    www.nsa.gov/programs/kids/glossary.shtml

    The proportion of the target audience that will see the publications 
in the schedule a certain number of times. eg. 3 or more times (3+).
    newsmedianet.com.au/home/Glossary.jsp

    A frequency distribution is a systematic way to order a set of data 
from lowest to highest value showing the number of occurrences (frequency) 
at each value or range of values.
    www.brendan.com/Glossary.htm

    A means of summarizing the phenotypes of a continuous trait whereby 
the population is described in terms of the proportion of individuals that 
have each phenotype.
    www.modernhumanorigins.com/f.html

    The classification of numerical data according to size or magnitude. A 
population whose elements are classified according to some quantitative 
characteristic (dollar value, of purchase orders, or of invoices, etc.) 
may be described by a frequency distribution. A symmetrical distribution 
is a frequency distribution that can be portrayed by a normal (bell) 
curve. A skewed distribution is a frequency distribution which extends 
further in one direction than in another. An example of a skewed 
distribution would be one that involved 500 sales invoices totaling 
$1,000,000 with 5 of the invoices amounting to $100,000 each. By examining 
all of the high value invoices and thereby removing them from the skewed 
distribution, the remaining invoices, assuming no further extremes, would 
reflect a normal distribution lending itself to random sampling.
    www.window.state.tx.us/taxinfo/audit/sampling/glossary.htm

    A table that graphically presents a large volume of data so the 
central tendency (such as the average or mean) and distribution are 
clearly displayed.
    www.asq.org/info/glossary/f.html

    In SPSS (and other statistical packages) a frequency distribution 
shows how often a given value occurred. For example a frequency 
distribution of the variable gender for a sample of 100 people, half of 
whom were men and half women would show Men: 50; Women: 50.
    bss.sfsu.edu/legates/Analyzing/analyzing_glossary.htm

    A display of cases divided into mutually exclusive and contiguous 
groups according to a quality-related criterion.
    www.qualitymeasures.ahrq.gov/resources/glossary.aspx

    A report of the number and type of responses to a particular question, 
e.g. the following is a frequency distribution for an income variable
    www.saurageresearch.com/glossary.html

    A listing of scores and the number of persons receiving each score.
    fc1.tamu.edu/home/keycomponents/glossary.html

    a graph depicting the number of times each score appears in the data 
set.
    www.cwu.edu/~millerj/stathelp/definitions.html

    A statistical table that graphically presents a large volume of data 
in such a way that the central tendency (average/mean, etc.) and 
distribution are clearly displayed. The arrangement of data into classes 
or interval groups
    www.oly-wa.us/sqn/Glossary.htm

    A tabular summary of data showing the number (or frequency) of items 
in each of several non-overlapping classes.
    www.swcollege.com/quant/asw/embs_2e/glossary.html

    A means of summarizing large amounts of data to permit their 
interpretation in a simple graphic.
    www.eskimo.com/~hwa/glossary/glo_f.html

    a table showing the number of items that fall within each of a number 
of equal ranges or class intervals.
    www.ivey.uwo.ca/intl_students/dictionary/MS_dic.htm

    A tabulation of the number of individuals in each category on the 
scale of measurement.
    
www.public.coe.edu/departments/Psychology/PsychStat/glossaries/glossary%20chapter.htm

    In media it shows the number of people reached 1, 2, .....n times.
    www.rmsmedia.co.za/glossary.html

    The target audience reached by a message is divided into groups 
depending on how many times they were reached.
    www.horizonmedia.com/glossary/f.htm

    A method of displaying test scores.
    www.wrightslaw.com/links/glossary.assessment.htm

    A grouping of data into categories showing the number of observations 
in each mutually exclusive category.
    
highered.mcgraw-hill.com/sites/0072471042/student_view0/chapter2/glossary.html

    Displays how the cumulative audience for a schedule has built in 
percentage terms - once, twice, three times etc. Example (Men 25-39): 1 2 
3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10+
    www.mediafederation.org.au/glossary.html

    a distribution of observed frequencies of occurrence of the values of 
a variable
    www.cogsci.princeton.edu/cgi-bin/webwn