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distributed

[ dih-strib-yoo-tid ]

adjective

  1. Computers.
    1. being or relating to a network of devices, workstations, etc., in different locations connected by means of one or more other networks, allowing each member to carry out some or all of the management and processing of the shared information:

      As computers began to connect across the internet, the CPU evolved from being specifically a central control system to become a node within a distributed network.

    2. being or relating to a single database shared across such a network, especially one integrating multiple smaller databases:

      Back then no one was thinking of distributed databases with hundreds of servers working to keep data consistent across the nodes.

  2. Linguistics. (in distinctive feature analysis) characterized by relatively extensive contact or constriction between the articulating organs, as the [sh] in show in contrast to the [s] in so.
  3. Statistics. showing a specified type of distribution:

    A randomly distributed dominant gene has a prevalence of 75 percent.



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  • un·dis·trib·ut·ed adjective
  • well-dis·trib·ut·ed adjective

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If Google and other companies looking to integrate remote and distributed teams into their innovation efforts, they need to find a way to upgrade the human element of collaboration—today’s tools and technologies just aren’t going to work.

From Fortune

In all, the remote work curriculum consists of four modules, starting with “remote work best practices” and ending with “culture and values for distributed teams.”

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Stacy-Marie Ishmael, 36Editorial director, the Texas TribuneI have had lots of experience both managing and being a part of distributed teams operating on demanding timelines to manage complex work.

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Paperback publishers distributed their titles in African-American neighborhoods because it expanded their market base.

Even Sony Pictures Classics, who distributed the Before trilogy?

Lunch finally arrives, this time not a sumptuous feast but fish wrapped in a military newspaper distributed on U.S. bases.

While food is distributed to families, children living on the UN base in Bentiu continue to struggle with malnutrition.

The people in charge of the convoys distributed the hejab to the besieged women along with the cartons of food.

It is more universally distributed over the whole Island, in the cultivated as well as the wild parts.

It is widely distributed geographically, and is one of the most common of intestinal parasites in this country.

In Guernsey it is pretty generally distributed over the more cultivated parts, but nowhere so numerous as in England.

Some of them are very widely distributed throughout the vegetable kingdom, but others are almost peculiar to individual plants.

Dividends must be distributed among the stockholders without unjust discrimination.

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