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Noun allocation has 3 senses
- allotment, allocation - a share set aside for a specific purpose
--1 is a kind of share, portion, part, percentage
--1 has particulars: reallocation; quota
- allotment, apportionment, apportioning, allocation, parceling, parcelling, assignation - 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"
--2 is a kind of distribution
--2 has particulars:
- allocation - (computer science) the assignment of particular areas of a magnetic disk to particular data or instructions
--3 is a kind of assignment, assigning
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