Allocation
Under Allocation ( Latin locare , medieval Latin Allocare , place 'in a broader sense to allocate') is generally understood as the allocation of limited resources to potential users . In particular, this means:
- Allocation (botany) in perennial plants, the relocation of reserve substances from Sources to Sinks (storage tissue ), for example before the autumn leaves fall from the leaves into the trunk
- Allocation (IT) , the allocation of main memory or other resources
- Allocation (ecological balance) , the allocation of emissions and energy contributions to the actual source
- Resource allocation , the allocation of scarce resources to various possible uses in an economy
- Allocation ethics , the investigation of the question of the morally fair allocation of resources, for example in the case of organ donation to the needy
- Asset allocation , the distribution of assets across different asset classes
- Allocation of risks to different risk carriers , especially in the case of complex contracts (e.g. public-private partnership contracts )
- Allocation of gas quantities to a balancing group according to the German Gas Network Access Ordinance
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Wiktionary: Allocation - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations
