0 consisting of a group of organizations, countries, regions, etc. that have joined together to form a larger organization or government:
1 allowing many separate computer resources, such as collections of data (= information), to be searched at the same time:
2 used to describe a group of organizations, regions, countries, etc. that has joined together to form a federation (= a larger organization or government):
3 used to describe a group of systems, documents, etc. that have been joined together to form a single one
Independent or loosely federated provinces, with disparate interests, laws, governments, and customs tariffs, have been consolidated into a single nation.
He said the central government "must be more powerful than the federated regions."
The Association was reorganized into a federated structure of eleven organizational member provinces.
To users and applications, data sources appear to belong to a single federated database.
With larger catalogs of images, and federated or distributed search databases, I hope looking for art online will become less of a challenge and more of a pleasure.
A federated network identity delivers the benefit of simplified sign-on to users by granting rapid access to resources.
Independent systems connect to the Learning Resource Exchange to share learning resources in a federated way.
