Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

distributed ledger

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.43 in modern English

Syllables: dis-tribut-ed ledger
IPA

23

Scrabble Score

17

Letters

3

Syllables

10

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A consensus of replicated, shared, and synchronized digital data geographically spread across multiple locations.

Example Sentences

"Another distributed ledger platform, called Ethereum, works off the same technology that Bitcoin does, but it is run as an open-source software project, meaning the software code is freely available for anyone to work on."
"As mentioned, a blockchain is a distributed ledger of transactions implemented as data batched into blocks that use cryptographic validation to link the blocks together."

Inflected Forms

distributed ledgers (plural)

Synonyms

shared ledger ledger

Questions

What does distributed ledger mean?: A consensus of replicated, shared, and synchronized digital data geographically spread across multiple locations.

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