Usually means: Allocation or division among several.
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General (21 matching dictionaries)
  1. distributive: Merriam-Webster
  2. distributive: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. distributive: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. distributive: Collins English Dictionary
  5. distributive: Vocabulary.com
  6. Distributive, distributive: Wordnik
  7. distributive: Wiktionary
  8. distributive: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. distributive: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. distributive: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. distributive: Dictionary.com
  12. Distributive: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  13. distributive: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  14. distributive: Rhymezone
  15. Distributive: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  16. distributive: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  17. distributive: FreeDictionary.org
  18. distributive: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  19. distributive: Mnemonic Dictionary
  20. distributive: TheFreeDictionary.com
  21. distributive: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. distributive: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. distributive: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. distributive: Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy

Science (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Distributive: Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics
  2. -distributive, distributive, distributive: PlanetMath Encyclopedia

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Definitions from Wiktionary (distributive)

adjective:  Relating to distribution.
adjective:  Tending to distribute; serving to divide and assign in portions; dealing a proper share to each.
adjective:  (mathematics) A property of functions that have a rule describing how the function can be performed to the individual components of another operation.
adjective:  (logic) Assigning the species of a general term.
adjective:  (grammar) Expressing separation; denoting a taking singly, not collectively.
noun:  (grammar) distributive case
noun:  (grammar) A distributive adjective or pronoun.
noun:  (mathematics) A distributive numeral.

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