Adjective: distributive
Comparison Forms
Synthetic
Perifrastic
| Comparative | more distributive |
| Superlative | most distributive |
Sample Sentences
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[I]t is worth obſerving the diſtributive Juſtice of the Authors, which is conſtantly applied to the Puniſhment of Virtue, and the Reward of Vice; […] [1709, [Jonathan Swift], A Project for the Advancement of Religion, and the Reformation of Manners. […], London: […] Benj[amin] Tooke, […], →OCLC, page 40:]
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If function f is distributive with respect to function g, then f(a,g(b,c))=g(f(a,b),f(a,c)).
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If the operation ⋆ is distributive with respect to the operation ∘, then a⋆(b∘c)=(a⋆b)∘(a⋆c).
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a distributive adjective or pronoun, such as "each", "either", or "every"
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a distributive numeral, such as Latin "bini" (two by two)
Adjectives inflected like distributive
priest-ridden,
unreposed,
evadible,
dissentious,
dissentient,
unforesighted,
egocentrical,
unephemeral,
unennobling,
mensuralist,
flocculent,
unseductive,
whoopsy,
whooshy,
surrogate,
Nicodian,
unrepaired,
prismatoidal,
renorenal,
unseducible, etc. (List truncated at 20 adjectives)
Etymology
From Middle French distributif, from Latin distribūtīvus. See: Latin Adjectives '
distribūtīvus'.
Verbs referencing "distributive"
Finnish Adjectives
distributiivinen.