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Definition of Distributive
1. Adjective. Serving to distribute or allot or disperse.
Also: Distributed, Divided
Antonyms: Collective
Derivative terms: Distribute
Definition of Distributive
1. a. Tending to distribute; serving to divide and assign in portions; dealing to each his proper share.
2. n. A distributive adjective or pronoun; also, a distributive numeral.
Definition of Distributive
1. Adjective. Relating to distribution. ¹
2. Adjective. (mathematics) A property of functions that have a rule describing how the function can be performed to the individual components of another operation. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Distributive
1. [adj]
Medical Definition of Distributive
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1. Tending to distribute; serving to divide and assign in portions; dealing to each his proper share. "Distributive justice."
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Distributive
Literary usage of Distributive
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Elements of the Integral Calculus: With a Key to the Solution of by William Elwood Byerly (1892)
"If f(u±v)=fu±fv where u and v are any subjects, the operation f is distributive
or linear. Time operation indicated by d and the operation indicated by D1 ..."
2. The Works of Jeremy Bentham by Jeremy Bentham, John Bowring (1839)
"distributive-seeking suits. Suits at large, and distributive-demanding, or say,
... By a distributive-seeking suit ..."
3. A Treatise on the Law of Personal Property by James Schouler (1918)
"Legacies and distributive Shares in General. The various classes of personal
property to which we have hitherto devoted our attention are such that ..."
4. Lectures on the Moral Government of God by Nathaniel William Taylor (1859)
"Justice commonly classified as commutative, distributive, and general. ...
Not distributive justice ; but, 3. A benevolent disposition to maintain authority ..."
5. Civil Procedure Reports: Containing Cases Under the Code of Civil Procedure by New York (State), Henry Huffman Browne, Courts, Rufus Leonard Scott, James Manford Kerr, Percival Soloman Menken (1884)
"Surrogates have power to hear and determine controversies in regard to the title
to or any other question concerning a legacy or distributive shim. ..."
6. The Johns Hopkins University Studies in Historical and Political Science by Johns Hopkins University (1888)
"distributive COOPERATION. Systems of distributive cooperation have had little
... It seems doubtful to me whether in the United States distributive ..."
7. A Treatise on the American Law of Administration by John Gabriel Woerner (1889)
"Set-off to Legacies and distributive Shares. — The indebtedness of a legatee ...
St. 333; against the distributive share of the wife. Waterman on Set-off, ..."
8. Structural Geology by Charles Kenneth Leith (1913)
"distributive Thrust Faults:—Not uncommonly faulting takes place along ...
distributive faults may be on a minute scale, a dozen of them being seen in a ..."
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