distributivity
Noun
Meaning
distributivity (countable and uncountable, plural distributivities)
(mathematics) the fact of being distributive
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Extending this analogy, the fact that composition is bilinear in general becomes the distributivity of multiplication over addition.
Furthermore, for every r in R, right (or left) multiplication by r gives rise to a morphism of (R, +), by right (or left) distributivity.