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Adjective: distributed  `di'stribyutud
  1. Spread out or scattered about or divided up
Verb: distribute  di'stribyoot
  1. Administer or bestow, as in small portions
    - administer, mete out, deal, parcel out, lot, dispense, shell out, deal out, dish out, allot, dole out, mete, dole
     
  2. Distribute or disperse widely
    - spread
     
  3. Make available
    "The publisher wants to distribute the book in Asia"
     
  4. Give to several people
    - give out, hand out, pass out
     
  5. Cause be distributed
    - circulate, pass around, pass on
     
  6. Cause to become widely known
    - circulate, circularize, circularise [Brit], disseminate, propagate, broadcast, spread, diffuse, disperse, pass around
     
  7. Spread throughout a given area
    "the function distributes the values evenly"
     
  8. Be distributed or spread, as in statistical analyses
    "Values distribute"
     
  9. Be mathematically distributive
     
  10. To arrange in a systematic order
    - stagger

See also: apportioned, broken, dealt out, diffuse, diffused, dispensed, dispersed, distributer, distribution, distributive, distributively, distributor, divided, divided up, doled out, encyclical, fanned, far-flung, low-density, meted out, parceled out, rationed, scattered, separated, shared, shared out, spaced, sparse, splashed, spread, spread-out, straggly, thin, unfocused, unfocussed, widespread

Type of: air, arrange, bare, be, displace, exist, gift, give, move, present, publicise [Brit], publicize, scatter, set up, spread, spread out, transfer

Antonym: concentrated

Encyclopedia: Distribute

Distributed