Defn: To make distribution.
Distributing to the necessity of saints. Rom. xii. 13.
DISTRIBUTER
Dis*trib"u*ter, n.
Defn: One who, or that which, distributes or deals out anything; a dispenser. Addison.
DISTRIBUTING
Dis*trib"u*ting, a.
Defn: That distributes; dealing out. Distributing past office, an office where the mails for a large district are collected to be assorted according to their destination and forwarded.
DISTRIBUTION
Dis`tri*bu"tion, n. Etym: [L. distributio: cf. F. distribution.]
1. The act of distributing or dispensing; the act of dividing or apportioning among several or many; apportionment; as, the distribution of an estate among heirs or children. The phenomena of geological distribution are exactly analogous to those of geography. A. R. Wallace.
2. Separation into parts or classes; arrangement of anything into parts; disposition; classification.
3. That which is distributed. "Our charitable distributions." Atterbury.
4. (Logic)