0 past simple and past participle of distribute
1 to give something out to several people, or to spread or supply something:
A number of charities are coordinating their efforts to distribute food to the region.
Tons of internationally donated food was distributed to the starving peasants.
She incited racial hatred by distributing anti-Semitic leaflets.
It's thought that the pornographic films are being distributed by an international vice ring.
Mutations are assumed to be independent and identically distributed across players.
Of the 895 distributed questionnaires, 371 were returned (41 % response rate).
The term refers to a disruption of interconnecting fibres that link spatially distributed regions in the brain.