distributed systems

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two or more computers linked by telecommunication, each of which can perform independently

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Words nearby distributed systems

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How to use distributed systems in a sentence

Paperback publishers distributed their titles in African-American neighborhoods because it expanded their market base.
How Pulp Fiction Saved Literature|Wendy Smith|January 8, 2015|DAILY BEAST
A variety of systems were in place across countries like the United Kingdom, France, and Australia.
Propaganda, Protest, and Poisonous Vipers: The Cinema War in Korea|Rich Goldstein|December 30, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Marx forecast that the profit motive would lead to overworking and exhausting the fertility of our soil and other natural systems.
American Democracy Under Threat for 250 Years|Jedediah Purdy|December 28, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Apparently, the company “failed to properly test its systems.”
Best Buy Punches Back at Amazon|William O’Connor|December 27, 2014|DAILY BEAST

Even Sony Pictures Classics, who distributed the Before trilogy?
Coffee Talk with Ethan Hawke: On ‘Boyhood,’ Jennifer Lawrence, and Bill Clinton’s Urinal Exchange|Marlow Stern|December 27, 2014|DAILY BEAST
There is no reason to suppose that his is the only Solar System: there may be many millions of solar systems.
God and my Neighbour|Robert Blatchford
For aught we know, there may be millions of systems, each containing millions of solar systems.
God and my Neighbour|Robert Blatchford
You may look again and again, and see millions of suns and systems spread out across the heavens like rivers of living gems.
God and my Neighbour|Robert Blatchford
It is more universally distributed over the whole Island, in the cultivated as well as the wild parts.
Birds of Guernsey (1879)|Cecil Smith
It is widely distributed geographically, and is one of the most common of intestinal parasites in this country.
A Manual of Clinical Diagnosis|James Campbell Todd