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distributed

distributed

35 3.8
Spread out across an area or shared among many people
  • adjective
  • /dɪsˈtrɪbjuːtɪd/
: distribuido
  • However, it should be evenly distributed across successive cohorts.

However, it should be evenly distributed across successive cohorts.

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Examples

  • The pressure is even and well distributed, ensuring that we get a nice smooth painting.

  • All right, so how do distributed teams perform?

  • The book has been printed in and distributed in different countries.

  • And then all the water from this reservoir gets distributed to each one of the layers.

  • They are geographically distributed, not so easy to find.

  • Between the months of January and March, soup and bread were distributed from Broad Street and Saint Andrews.

  • People don't live uniformly distributed over a country or a state.

  • The resources were evenly distributed among all the participants in the project.

  • In the new study, the students were distributed into different groups based on their skills.

  • He noticed that the population was distributed unequally between urban and rural areas.

Synonyms

scattered
vsdistributed
137 3.5

Spread over a wide area and not close together

covers both irregular placement and planned division among people
divided up
vsdistributed
39 2.9

Parts are given to people, often according to a plan

can also mean covering an area, not only shared out
dispersed
vsdistributed
16 4.2

Spread out across a wide area

includes dividing among people or items as well as area spreading
divided
vsdistributed
  • US
9 3.0

Split into parts and given out, often equally

also covers simple area spreading not only splitting into parts
shared out
vsdistributed
2 3.0

Divided into parts and given to people, usually equally

also applies to things simply spread over areas rather than divided
spread-out
vsdistributed
2 3.5

Arranged so they cover a wide area like papers fanned on a table

is similar but the term also includes dividing among people
apportioned
vsdistributed
1 6.5

Divided and given out to people or groups according to a plan

covers wide area spreading as well as allocation among people

Antonyms

33 4.8

Found only in one small area

22 4.1

Giving a lot of attention and effort to one task

Compounds

Found in many parts of the world

4.2

A way of handling data where parts run on different computers connected by a network

distributed fire
  • Specialized
8.2

Shots from many guns spread over an area to hit targets

How Scattered

dispersed
16 4.2
scattered
137 3.5
distributed
35 3.8
clustered
19 4.1
concentrated
  • Specialized
6 5.7

Surface Forms

distributed positive

Morphology

distributed = distribute (transparent) = distribute + ed

This adjective is a regular past-participial formation from the verb 'distribute' and its meaning is directly inferable.

Etymology

Distributed comes from two parts: dis- meaning 'apart' and tribute meaning 'give', the same root you find in contribute. So, to be distributed is to have something 'given out' or 'spread out' across a place or among many people.