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 systems connect to the Learning Resource Exchange to share learning resources in a federated way.
A federated network identity delivers the benefit of simplified sign-on to users by granting rapid access to resources.
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.
To users and applications, data sources appear to belong to a single federated database.
The Association was reorganized into a federated structure of eleven organizational member provinces.
He said the central government "must be more powerful than the federated regions."
Independent or loosely federated provinces, with disparate interests, laws, governments, and customs tariffs, have been consolidated into a single nation.