distributed

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /dɪˈstɹɪbjutɪd/, (less common, usually only as verb, not as adjective) /ˈdɪstɹɪbjutɪd/
• (General American, Canada) IPA^(key): /dɪˈstɹɪbjutɪd/, [dɪˈstɹɪbjuɾɪd], (less common, usually only as verb, not as adjective) /ˈdɪstɹɪbjutɪd/, [ˈdɪstɹɪbjuɾɪd]

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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