单词 | distributor |
释义 | distributor /di strib"yeuh teuhr/, n. 1. a person or thing that distributes. 2. Com. 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. Auto. , Mach. a device in a multicylinder engine that distributes the igniting voltage to the spark plugs in a definite sequence. 4. Print. 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. [1520-30; < LL distributor. See DISTRIBUTE, -TOR] |
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