distributed

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dɪsˈtɹɪbjutɪd/, (less common) /ˈdɪstɹɪbjutɪd/

• Audio (US):

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• Hyphenation: dis‧trib‧ut‧ed

Verb

distributed

1. simple past and past participle of distribute

Adjective

distributed (comparative more distributed, superlative most distributed)

1. Spread across a relatively wide area.
   • 2014, Jessica L. Wildman, Richard L. Griffith, Leading Global Teams (page 80)

     Webster and Wong (2008) found that semivirtual teams had more positive perceptions of their local teammates compared to the distributed teammates […]

2. (computing) Involving numerous separate computers or entities, rather than the traditional one.

   distributed computing

   distributed ray tracing

Derived terms

• biodistributed
• codistributed
• distributed hash table
• distributed ledger
• distributedly
• distributedness
• equidistributed
• geodistributed
• maldistributed
• nondistributed
• undistributed