peer-to-peer

English

Adjective

peer-to-peer (not comparable)

1. (of a social network of equal partners) Able to conduct business without using a middleman.
   • 2013 June 1, “End of the peer show”, in The Economist‎^[1], volume 407, number 8838, page 71:

     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. (computing, of a network) Connected as equal partners and able to share processing, control and access to data and peripherals; decentralized.

   Synonym: P2P

   • 2004, Dinesh Verma, Legitimate Applications of Peer-to-Peer Networks, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 98:

     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.

Derived terms

• peer-to-peer economy
• peer-to-peer lending

Translations

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

• Finnish: keskinäinen (fi), vertainen (fi)
• Georgian: ერთთანრიგიანი (erttanrigiani)
• Italian: senza intermediari

of a network of two or more computers connected as equal partners

• Finnish: vertaisverkko-
• Georgian: ერთთანრიგიანი ქსელი (erttanrigiani kseli)
• Greek: διομότιμος (el) (diomótimos), ομότιμος (el) (omótimos)
• Russian: пи́ринговый (ru) (píringovyj), децентрализо́ванный (ru) (decentralizóvannyj), однора́нговый (ru) (odnorángovyj)

See also

• one-to-one