What are publisher and distributor and subscriber in Replication

Publisher is main source of data and we can say its the owner of the database.And its takes decision how to distribute data accross.

Distributor is a bridge between publisher and the subscriber.Distributor is one who gathers all the data which is published by publisher and take it before send it to subscriber. So it is clear that it is bridge between publisher and subscriber and its supports multiple publisher and subscriber concepts.

Subscri
ber is end source or the final place where data has to be transmitted.