<p><strong>Noun</strong></p><ul><li>a person or thing that distributes.</li><li>Commerce: a person, firm, etc., engaged in the general distribution or marketing of some article or class of goods.</li><li>a wholesaler who has exclusive rights to market, within a given territory, the goods of a manufacturer or company.</li><li>Automotive, Machinery: a device in a multicylinder engine that distributes the igniting voltage to the spark plugs in a definite sequence.</li><li>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.</li><li>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.</li></ul>