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3 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Distributive \Dis*trib"u*tive\, n. (Gram.) A distributive adjective or pronoun; also a distributive numeral. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Distributive \Dis*trib"u*tive\, a. [Cf. F. distributif.] 1. Tending to distribute; serving to divide and assign in portions; dealing to each his proper share. ``Distributive justice.'' --Swift. 2. (Logic) Assigning the species of a general term. 3. (Gram.) Expressing separation; denoting a taking singly, not collectively; as a distributive adjective or pronoun, such as each either every; a distributive numeral, as (Latin) bini (two by two). {Distributive operation} (Math.), any operation which either consists of two or more parts or works upon two or more things and which is such that the result of the total operation is the same as the aggregated result of the two or more partial operations. Ordinary multiplication is distributive, since a [times] (b + c) = ab + ac and (a + b) [times] c = ac + bc {Distributive proportion}. (Math.) See {Fellowship}. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: distributive adj 1: serving to distribute or allot or disperse [ant: {collective}] 2: tending to disperse [syn: {dispersive}]
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