資料來源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Distributive \Dis*trib"u*tive\, a. [Cf. F. distributif.]
   1. Tending to distribute; serving to divide and assign in
      portions; dealing to each his proper share. ``Distributive
      justice.'' --Swift.

   2. (Logic) Assigning the species of a general term.

   3. (Gram.) Expressing separation; denoting a taking singly,
      not collectively; as, a distributive adjective or pronoun,
      such as each, either, every; a distributive numeral, as
      (Latin) bini (two by two).

   {Distributive operation} (Math.), any operation which either
      consists of two or more parts, or works upon two or more
      things, and which is such that the result of the total
      operation is the same as the aggregated result of the two
      or more partial operations. Ordinary multiplication is
      distributive, since a [times] (b + c) = ab + ac, and (a +
      b) [times] c = ac + bc.

   {Distributive proportion}. (Math.) See {Fellowship}.