(of a social network of equal partners) Able to conduct business without using a middleman.
Used in a Sentence
peer-to-peer
Definitions, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for peer-to-peer.
Editorial note
We believe the future of marketing is peer-to-peer, and our platform gives brands the ultimate dashboard into the social web.
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Quick take
(of a social network of equal partners) Able to conduct business without using a middleman.
Meaning at a glance
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(computing, of a network) Connected as equal partners and able to share processing, control and access to data and peripherals; decentralized.
Definitions
Core meanings and parts of speech for peer-to-peer.
adjective
(of a social network of equal partners) Able to conduct business without using a middleman.
adjective
(computing, of a network) Connected as equal partners and able to share processing, control and access to data and peripherals; decentralized.
Example sentences
We believe the future of marketing is peer-to-peer, and our platform gives brands the ultimate dashboard into the social web.
I think the revolution that will allow unfettered exchange of ideas will be peer-to-peer microtransactions.
This is something all peer-to-peer networks running over IPv4 must do.
Going forward, we have some really exciting ideas around peer-to-peer audio and video streaming.
No, just make sure the web's big shot at peer-to-peer networking doesn't poke yet another hole in the already shabby privacy of today's average web user.
I don't understand why a peer-to-peer network connection is different from Ajax.
If I were a conspiracy-minded person (I'm not), I'd have to wonder if this was some kind of corporate-driven attempt to suppress peer-to-peer networks.
I hope someday you'll join us, And the world will peer-to-peer.
Why not a distributed, peer-to-peer system instead?
> Peer-to-peer networking is the web's big chance to weaken these huge personal data-scarfing companies.
Edit: s/advertiser-driven/corporate-driven I think there are a lot of big companies, particularly social media, that have a huge vested interest in suppressing web-based peer-to-peer networks.
So we're willing to destroy the web's big shot at peer-to-peer networking out of concern that this adds one more data point for fingerprinting, out of dozens?
Quote examples
The people who can create a "new peer-to-peer hypermedia protocol" can't configure basic DNS?
All telemetry, key and audio capturing and auto-cloud-upload, peer-to-peer-updates, forced updates,...these new "features"/annoyances aren't well received.
When I last played WoW there was a rather visible checkbox in the updater that said something like "Disable peer-to-peer transfers", and fairly importantly the updater never actually seeded the torrent; you only uploaded while you were actively downloading the patch, which stopped it from using a bunch of bandwidth at unexpected times.
Proper noun examples
Peer-to-peer networking is the web's big chance to weaken these huge personal data-scarfing companies.
Frequently asked questions
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How do you use peer-to-peer in a sentence?
We believe the future of marketing is peer-to-peer, and our platform gives brands the ultimate dashboard into the social web.
What does peer-to-peer mean?
(of a social network of equal partners) Able to conduct business without using a middleman.
What part of speech is peer-to-peer?
peer-to-peer is commonly used as adjective.