handout; distributed material
Refers to physical or digital materials given out to people, such as flyers, pamphlets, or printed documents.
We handed out the materials to everyone before the meeting.
distribution; software distribution
Used in computing contexts for the act or result of distributing software, packages, or digital content.
This distribution includes the latest security patches.
Compound of 配布 (distribution) + 物 (thing). The exact historical derivation is straightforward; the word is a modern compound.