Толковый словарь английского языка - distributive

adjective Date: 15th century of or relating to distribution: as, dealing a proper share to each of a group, diffusing more or less evenly, referring singly and without exception to the members of a group , 3. being an operation (as multiplication in a(b + c) = ab + ac) that produces the same result when operating on the whole mathematical expression as when operating on each part and collecting the results, being or relating to a rule or property concerning a ~ operation , ~ly adverb distributivity noun