allocation

The process or procedure for allocating things, especially money or other resources.

Noun

  1. The process or procedure for allocating things, especially money or other resources.
    • The allocation of new permits is on a first-come, first-served basis.
    • Following allocation to Toton on January 1 1996, it stayed there until transferral to Crewe in November 2000, before being stored at Eastleigh on December 17 the same year. - 2024 January 10, Chris Gilson, “RAIL's...

    Synonyms: apportionment

  2. That which is allocated; allowance, entitlement.
    • The farmer received his full allocation of water from the government.
  3. Restriction of an embryonic cell and its clonal descendants to a particular cell type or body region.

Origin

From Middle French allocacion, from Medieval Latin allocātiō. By surface analysis, allocate + -ion.

Forms

allocations

Derived

allocational allocation unit buddy memory allocation deallocation dynamic memory allocation file allocation table misallocation overallocation pachinko allocation preallocation reallocation static memory allocation suballocation underallocation