distributed

adj — 2 senses

distributed

adj

UK /dɪˈstɹɪbjutɪd/ · CA, US /dɪˈstɹɪbjutɪd/

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 […]2014, Jessica L. Wildman, Richard L. Griffith, Leading Global Teams, page 80:
2

Computing, Engineering, Mathematics, Natural sciences, Physical sciences, Sciences 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

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