Word info

peer-to-peer

Adjective

Meaning

Of a social network of equal partners able to conduct business without using a middleman.

(computing) Of a network of two or more computers connected as equal partners and able to share processing, control and access to data and peripherals.

Source: en.wiktionary.org

Examples

Learning by doing, peer-to-peer teaching, and computer simulation are all part of the same equation. Nicholas Negroponte

Nobody has ever built a reliable peer-to-peer service, where people can really access all the music they want in one location,... Once I got it into my head, I couldn't imagine the media space without one. Shawn Fanning

When I worry about privacy, I worry about peer-to-peer invasion of privacy. About the fact that anytime anything of any note happens, there are three arms holding cell phones with cameras in them or video records capturing the event ready to go on the nightly news, if necessary. Jonathan Zittrain

Profound changes to how children access vast information is yielding new forms of peer-to-peer and individual-guided learning. Sugata Mitra

AirDrop is a peer-to-peer service on Apple devices that allow them to share files without the need to email, upload to the cloud or even be connected to the same WiFi network. Source: Internet

Easy access to cult films via video on demand and peer-to-peer file sharing has led some critics to pronounce the death of cult films. Source: Internet

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