- a person or thing that distributes.
- Commerce.
- a person, firm, etc., engaged in the general distribution or marketing of some article or class of goods.
- a wholesaler who has exclusive rights to market, within a given territory, the goods of a manufacturer or company.
- a device in a multicylinder engine that distributes the igniting voltage to the spark plugs in a definite sequence.
- Printing.
- (in a press) one of the rollers for spreading ink on the table, rolling it to a proper consistency, and transferring it to rollers that ink the form or plate.
- (in a Linotype) a bar with keylike cuts along its length, for sorting matrices into their proper magazines after type has been cast.
- a person or thing that distributes
- a wholesaler or middleman engaged in the distribution of a category of goods, esp to retailers in a specific area
- the device in a petrol engine that distributes the high-tension voltage to the sparking plugs in the sequence of the firing order
