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distributed

verbadjectiveattested in dialogue

  • United Kingdom//dɪˈstɹɪbjutɪd//
  • Canada//dɪˈstɹɪbjutɪd//
  • Canada/[dɪˈstɹɪbjuɾɪd]/

Spread across a relatively wide area.

verb

  1. 1

    Also a form of distributesimple past and past participle of distribute

adjective

  1. 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 […]

  2. 2

    Involving numerous separate computers or entities, rather than the traditional one.

    distributed computing

    distributed ray tracing

Forms

comparative
more distributed
superlative
most distributed
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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).