Distributed

//dɪsˈtɹɪbjutɪd// adj, verb

adj, verb ·Moderate ·College level

Definitions

Verb
  1. 1
    simple past and past participle of distribute form-of, participle, past
Adjective
  1. 1
    Spread across a relatively wide area.

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

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

    "distributed computing"

Adjective
  1. 1
    spread out or scattered about or divided up wordnet

Synonyms

All synonyms
diffusediffuseddispersedscatteredsparsestraggly

Example

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"The agenda for the meeting has been distributed."

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distributed hash tabledistributed ledger

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