Definitions
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective spread from a central location to multiple points or recipients. Opposite of
concentrated . - adjective spread among a variety of securities; -- of investments.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
distribute .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective spread out or scattered about or divided up
Etymologies
Sorry, no etymologies found.
Support
Help support Wordnik (and make this page ad-free) by adopting the word distributed.
Examples
-
In all these cases, what the term distributed adds to the substantive to which it is related, is the idea that it has to be considered as a web of interconnected, autonomous elements, i.e. elements that are capable of acting autonomously, being, at the same time, highly connected with the other elements of the system.
-
A part of what we do at the MIT Leadership Center is think about people who are not just great individuals themselves but create what we call distributed leadership within their organizations.
-
A part of what we do at the MIT Leadership Center is think about people who are not just great individuals themselves but create what we call distributed leadership within their organizations.
-
These types of what they call distributed denial of service attacks involve using thousands, sometimes tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands of computers worldwide that could be anything from the bank that you do business with to your parent ` s home PC that are compromised and, without their knowing, used basically as zombies or launch pads in these types of global attacks.
-
He writes, "Perhaps all these Democrats are wrong to think that there is an advantage for their party in what I call distributed vote fraud, but I doubt it."
-
He writes, "Perhaps all these Democrats are wrong to think that there is an advantage for their party in what I call distributed vote fraud, but I doubt it."
-
Hence we should necessarily have a term distributed in the converse which was not distributed in the convertend.
Deductive Logic St. George William Joseph Stock
-
Again in IO or OI premisses there is only one term distributed, namely, the predicate of the O proposition.
Deductive Logic St. George William Joseph Stock
-
In ch. ix, § 3, the _Dictum de omni et nullo_ was stated: 'Whatever may be predicated of a term distributed may be predicated of anything that can be identified with that term.'
Logic Deductive and Inductive Carveth Read 1889
-
Now, the _Dictum_ requires that, in the major premise, P be predicated of a term distributed, from which it follows that no Mood can be valid whose major premise is particular, as in I.A.I. or O.A.O. Again, the _Dictum_ requires that the minor premise be affirmative
Logic Deductive and Inductive Carveth Read 1889
Comments
Log in or sign up to get involved in the conversation. It's quick and easy.