to divide or apportion (something) among a number of recipients

(usu in passive) to disperse or scatter (something) over an area

The species is distributed throughout Britain

to supply (goods) to the shops or outlets that are to sell them to consumers

in logic, to use (a term) so as to refer to every member of the class named

The proposition ‘all men are mortal’ distributes ‘man’ but not ‘mortal’

to divide or separate (things) into classes or categories

in printing, to return (type) to the right compartments for each character