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Distributive

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Adjective

1. distributive

serving to distribute or allot or disperse

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Distributive

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adjective
1. 
characterized by or relating to distribution
2. grammar
referring separately to the individual people or items in a group, as the words each and every
noun
3. grammar
a distributive word
4. mathematics
able to be distributed
multiplication is distributive over addition

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Distributive

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adjective
1. 
distributing or tending to distribute
2. 
relating to distribution
3.  Grammar
referring individually to all members of a group
“each” and “either” are distributive words
4.  Ancient Mathematics
of or having to do with a property, law, or principle in which the relationship between two combined operations, as multiplication and addition or multiplication and subtraction, is such that the results are the same whether the first operation is done on each item of a set and then combined or done once on the items in the set that have already been combined (Ex.: a(b + c) = ab + ac)
noun
5. 
a distributive word or expression

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Distributive

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adj.
1.
a. Of, relating to, or involving distribution.
b. Serving to distribute.
2. Mathematics Of or relating to a property involving two binary operations, usually multiplication and addition, in which the product of an element with a sum of terms is equal to the sum of the individual products of that element with each term. That is, if a × (b + c) = a × b + a × c, then the operation indicated by × is distributive over the operation indicated by +.
3. Grammar Referring to each individual or entity of a group separately rather than collectively, as every in the sentence Every employee attended the meeting.
n.
A distributive word or term.

The American Heritage ® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition copyright ©2018 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

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