federated

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈfɛdəɹeɪtɪd/

Verb

federated

1. simple past and past participle of federate

Adjective

federated (not comparable)

1. United, as a federation, under a central government
   • 1990, Frank Mecklenburg, Manfred Stassen, German Essays on Socialism in the Nineteenth Century[1]:

     As one of the results of these systems we have agrarian rule in nearly all the federated states of Germany.

2. (computing, telecommunications) Interconnected, as a federation or supernetwork of independent and interoperable services.

Usage notes

• States that are part of a federation are sometimes called federal states; see the entry for relative frequencies of federal state vs. federated state.

Derived terms

• federated database
• federated directory
• federated learning
• Federated States of Micronesia

Further reading

• “federated”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
• “federated”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
• “federated”, in Wordnik.
• "federated" in WordNet 3.1, Princeton University, 2011.