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1. (used of an accent in Hebrew orthography) indicating that the word marked is separated to a greater or lesser degree rhythmically and grammatically from the word that follows it
    
2. Serving to separate or divide into parts
   "the uniting influence was stronger than the separative";
   - partitive
    
3. (of a word) referring singly and without exception to the members of a group
   "whereas 'each,' 'every,' 'either,' 'neither,' and 'none' are distributive or referring to a single member of a group, 'which' in 'which of the men' is separative"

See also: disjunctive, distributive