distributive

Plural: distributives

Adjective

• serving to distribute or allot or disperse

Adj

• Relating to distribution.
• Tending to distribute; serving to divide and assign in portions; dealing a proper share to each.
• A property of functions that have a rule describing how the function can be performed to the individual components of another operation.
• Assigning the species of a general term.
• Expressing separation; denoting a taking singly, not collectively.

Noun

• distributive case
• A distributive adjective or pronoun.
• A distributive numeral.

Examples

• a distributive adjective or pronoun, such as "each", "either", or "every"
• a distributive numeral, such as Latin "bini" (two by two)

Antonyms

collective

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