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dis·trib·u·tor       [di-strib-yuh-ter] Pronunciation Key
–noun
1.a person or thing that distributes.
2.Commerce.
a.a person, firm, etc., engaged in the general distribution or marketing of some article or class of goods.
b.a wholesaler who has exclusive rights to market, within a given territory, the goods of a manufacturer or company.
3.Automotive, Machinery. a device in a multicylinder engine that distributes the igniting voltage to the spark plugs in a definite sequence.
4.Printing.
a.(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.
b.Also called distributor bar. (in a Linotype) a bar with keylike cuts along its length, for sorting matrices into their proper magazines after type has been cast.
Also, distributer.

[Origin: 1520–30; < LL distribūtor. See distribute, -tor]
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dis·trib·u·tor       (dĭ-strĭb'yə-tər)  Pronunciation Key 
n.  
  1. One that distributes, especially a device that applies electric current in proper sequence to the spark plugs of an engine.
  2. One that markets or sells merchandise, especially a wholesaler.

dis·trib'u·tor·ship' n.
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distributor

noun
1. someone who markets merchandise 
2. a person with authority to allot or deal out or apportion [syn: allocator] 
3. a company that markets merchandise; "his company is a large distributor of software products" 
4. electrical device that distributes voltage to the spark plugs of a gasoline engine in the order of the firing sequence 

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Distributor

Dis*trib"u*tor\, n. [L.] One that distributes; a distributer; specif.: (a) A machine for distributing type. (b) An appliance, as a roller, in a printing press, for distributing ink. (c) An apparatus for distributing an electric current, either to various points in rotation, as in some motors, or along two or more lines in parallel, as in a distributing system.

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.
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