federated
adjective
fed·er·at·ed
ˈfe-də-ˌrā-təd 
: of, relating to, forming, or joined in a federation
a union of federated republics
On this Western Hemisphere all tribes and people are forming into one federated whole …—
Herman Melville
Herman Melville… a handful of other blue chip companies were putting their considerable clout behind a coalition … to build a federated data warehouse that would help more than 2.5 million employees, retirees, and dependents take more control of their health and health care purchases.—Rob Preston
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Traditional data sharing has been limited by privacy concerns, but secure federated learning allows banks to collectively improve fraud models without exposing sensitive customer data.
—Jitender Jain, Forbes.com, 21 Apr. 2025
Meeting people on a federated network of many separate servers with many separate databases is trickier.
—IEEE Spectrum, 31 May 2011
Organizations may choose to use a federated center of excellence (CoE) approach where a committee or team will lead automation efforts.
—Jakob Freund, Forbes, 12 Mar. 2025
The model weights are hashed and put on a federated ledger at each training step.
—Vipin Bharathan, Forbes, 25 Feb. 2025
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Jitender Jain, Forbes.com, 21 Apr. 2025
Meeting people on a federated network of many separate servers with many separate databases is trickier.
—IEEE Spectrum, 31 May 2011
Organizations may choose to use a federated center of excellence (CoE) approach where a committee or team will lead automation efforts.
—Jakob Freund, Forbes, 12 Mar. 2025
The model weights are hashed and put on a federated ledger at each training step.
—Vipin Bharathan, Forbes, 25 Feb. 2025
See All Example Sentences for federated
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“Federated.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/federated. Accessed 26 Apr. 2025.
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