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bittorrent

noun

Etymology

From bit + torrent.

  1. derived from torrēre — “to parch, scorch”
  2. derived from torrentem
  3. derived from torrente
  4. borrowed from torrent
  5. compounded as bittorrent — “bit + torrent”

Definitions

  1. Alternative letter-case form of BitTorrent.

  2. A peer-to-peer file sharing protocol.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for bittorrent. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA