Distributive Definition
dĭ-strĭbyə-tĭv
adjective
Of, relating to, or involving distribution.
American Heritage
Distributing or tending to distribute.
Webster's New World
Referring individually to all members of a group.
“each” and “either” are distributive words.
Webster's New World
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)
Webster's New World
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noun
A distributive word or expression.
Webster's New World
Other Word Forms of Distributive
Noun
Singular:
distributive
Plural:
distributivesOrigin of Distributive
From Middle French distributif
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