Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Desire of distributing; generosity.
- noun In mathematics, the fact of operating upon every part in operating upon the whole; the being subject to a distributive formula.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Quality of being distributive.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The state or quality of being
distributive orallotting .
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Examples
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It is quite otherwise when the conductivity of the boiler-plate is not aided and controlled by the distributiveness of the water, as it is not whenever the plate is in contact with the fire on one side without being also in contact with the water on the other.
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