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Princeton's WordNet

  1. distributedadjective

    spread out or scattered about or divided up

ChatGPT

  1. distributed

    Distributed typically refers to a system or process where components, functions, or tasks are spread out, shared, or allocated across different geographical locations, computer networks, or among various individuals or units. It allows for parallel processing, improved system performance, and redundancy. This term is often used in the context of computing (distributed computing), databases (distributed databases), and networks (distributed networks).

Webster Dictionary

  1. Distributed

    of Distribute

Wikidata

  1. Distributed

    In a distributed model, repositories act as peers, and users typically have a local repository with version history available, in addition to their working copies.

Editors Contribution

  1. distributedverb

    Verb form of the word distribute.

    They distributed the goods between various shops.


    Submitted by MaryC on March 7, 2020  

British National Corpus

  1. Spoken Corpus Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'distributed' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #4443

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of distributed in Chaldean Numerology is: 9

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of distributed in Pythagorean Numerology is: 5

Examples of distributed in a Sentence

  1. Hyeon Soo Lim:

    I showed it to (church) followers and also distributed it by posting it on the Internet.

  2. Gerard Hayes:

    As demand and pressure on health services increases it will be good to get some clarity on how big a stockpile there is and how it will be distributed, that will give confidence to our members. Right now they don't have that confidence.

  3. Leon Lerman:

    From what our researchers have seen, there is an elaborate marketplace on the Dark Web where the stolen data is distributed through channels to end users, the hackers, who at the top of the black market value chain, sell raw patient data in bulk.

  4. Rob Petrosyan:

    I haven't seen that petition distributed around the UCI class pages, and it seems like most of the signatures are from outside UCI.

  5. Michael Steinberg:

    You would think that the number of bacterial infections where antibiotics are clinically indicated should be evenly distributed among smokers and non-smokers.

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