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Pervasive vs Distributive - What's the difference?

pervasive | distributive |

As adjectives the difference between pervasive and distributive

is that pervasive is manifested throughout; pervading, permeating, penetrating or affecting everything while distributive is relating to distribution.

As a noun distributive is

(grammar) a distributive adjective or pronoun.

pervasive

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Manifested throughout; pervading, permeating, penetrating or affecting everything.
    • The medication had a pervasive effect on the patient's health.

    Synonyms

    * (manifested throughout) penetrating, permeating, pervading

    Related terms

    * pervade

    distributive

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Relating to distribution.
  • Tending to distribute; serving to divide and assign in portions; dealing a proper share to each.
    • distributive justice
    (Jonathan Swift)
  • (mathematics) A property of functions that have a rule describing how the function can be performed to the individual components of another operation.
    • If function f'' is distributive with respect to function ''g , then f(a, g(b,c)) = g(f(a,b), f(a,c)).
    If the operation \star is distributive with respect to the operation \circ, then a \star (b \circ c) = (a \star b) \circ (a \star c) .
  • (logic) Assigning the species of a general term.
  • (grammar) Expressing separation; denoting a taking singly, not collectively.
    • a distributive adjective or pronoun, such as "each", "either", or "every"
    a distributive numeral, such as Latin "bini" (two by two)

    Related terms

    * distributive justice

    Derived terms

    * distributive lattice

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (grammar) A distributive adjective or pronoun.
  • (math) A distributive numeral.