Why git is called a distributed source control system?

Question

It seems after committing code to the local repository, every programmer will run the command.

git push origin master

to push the local file to

Answer 1

Check out the definition of a distributed system and compare that to what Git does/allows to be done. I think there's a match. A client/server approach needs by definition one "definitive/reference copy" which is not the case with Git and similar.