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peer-to-peer en · ADJ

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable, of a social network of equal partners) Able to conduct business without using a middleman.
    • Finance is seldom romantic. But the idea of peer-to-peer lending comes close. This is an industry that brings together individual savers and lenders on online platforms. Those that want to borrow are matched with those that want to lend. 2013 June 1, “End of the peer show”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8838, page 71:
  2. (not-comparable, of a network) Connected as equal partners and able to share processing, control and access to data and peripherals; decentralized.
    • With the peer-to-peer backup paradigm, each file is copied over to another peer in the system rather than to a central backup site. 2004, Dinesh Verma, Legitimate Applications of Peer-to-Peer Networks, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 98:

Deriveds

peer-to-peer economy · peer-to-peer lending

Relateds

one-to-one

Synonyms

P2P

Translations (16)

el ομότιμος (of a network of two or more computers connected as equal partners) · ru однора́нговый (of a network of two or more computers connected as equal partners) · bg еднорангов (of a network of two or more computers connected as equal partners) · ar نِدّ لِنِد (of a network of two or more computers connected as equal partners) · fi keskinäinen (of a social network of equal partners able to conduct business without using a middleman) · ru пи́ринговый (of a network of two or more computers connected as equal partners) · el διομότιμος (of a network of two or more computers connected as equal partners) · it senza intermediari (of a social network of equal partners able to conduct business without using a middleman) · ar نِدّ لِنِد (of a social network of equal partners able to conduct business without using a middleman) · ru децентрализо́ванный (of a network of two or more computers connected as equal partners) · fi vertaisverkko- (of a network of two or more computers connected as equal partners) · bg децентрализиран (of a network of two or more computers connected as equal partners) · fi vertainen (of a social network of equal partners able to conduct business without using a middleman) · bg равноправен (of a network of two or more computers connected as equal partners) · ka ერთთანრიგიანი (of a social network of equal partners able to conduct business without using a middleman) · ka ერთთანრიგიანი ქსელი (of a network of two or more computers connected as equal partners)