Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

distributed computing

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.87 in modern English

Syllables: dis-tribut-ed -com-put-ing
IPA

31

Scrabble Score

20

Letters

6

Syllables

14

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

The process of aggregating the power of several computers to collaboratively run a single computational task in a transparent and coherent way.

Uncountable

noun

The use of the idle time of large numbers of networked computers to work on projects too large for any single group.

Uncountable

Example Sentences

"SETI is a well-known example of distributed computing, with over five million computer users involved."

Usage

Uncountable

Subject

Wiktionary places this term in Computing.

Questions

What does distributed computing mean?: The process of aggregating the power of several computers to collaboratively run a single computational task in a transparent and coherent way.

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