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peer-to-peer

adj

Definitions

  1. 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.

  2. Connected as equal partners and able to share processing, control and access to data and…

    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.

The neighborhood

Derived

peer-to-peer economy, peer-to-peer lending

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for peer-to-peer. 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