Definition of DISTRIBUTED

distributed

Verb

  • administer or bestow, as in small portions
  • distribute or disperse widely
  • make available
  • give to several people
  • cause be distributed
  • cause to become widely known
  • spread throughout a given area
  • be distributed or spread, as in statistical analyses
  • be mathematically distributive
  • to arrange in a systematic order
  • simple past and past participle of distribute

Adjective

  • spread out or scattered about or divided up

Adj

  • Spread across a relatively wide area.
  • Involving numerous separate computers or entities, rather than the traditional one.

Examples

  • distributed computing
  • distributed ray tracing

Synonyms

administer, allot, broadcast, circularise, circularize, circulate, deal, deal out, diffuse, dish out, dispense, disperse, disseminate, distribute, dole out, give out, hand out, lot, mete out, parcel out, pass around, pass on, pass out, propagate, shell out, spread, stagger

Antonyms

concentrated, gather

Scrabble Score: 15

distributed: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Word
distributed: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
distributed: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary

Words With Friends Score: 17

distributed: valid Words With Friends Word