federate

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adjective

fed·​er·​ate ˈfe-d(ə-)rət How to pronounce federate (audio)
: united in an alliance or federation : federated

federate

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verb

fed·​er·​ate ˈfe-də-ˌrāt How to pronounce federate (audio)
federated; federating

transitive verb

: to join in a federation

Examples of federate in a Sentence

Verb The independent provinces were federated to form a nation. in the years following World War II, the U.S. and the nations of western Europe made the decision to federate as the North Atlantic Treaty Organization
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Verb
Knowledge graphs can also federate multiple databases together, natively bringing together disparate data. Brian Platz, Forbes, 21 Nov. 2024 There are also cases where the management and execution of that can be highly federated, and there might be multiple people. Megan Poinski, Forbes, 3 Oct. 2024 And Puntland, which awaits an effective Somali government with which to federate, has become a launching pad for many of the pirate attacks around the vital shipping lane between Djibouti and Yemen. Michael Crawford, Foreign Affairs, 19 Oct. 2010 Out with the old broken model, in with the New A fundamental shift away from centralized and federated identity systems is long overdue. Alastair Johnson, Forbes, 12 Sep. 2024 And then that means if a lot of people are federating and self-hosting, that ecosystem can just shift around piece by piece to the services that haven’t shut down their APIs and that haven’t let users feel betrayed. Nilay Patel, The Verge, 25 Mar. 2024 Instead of the audio for voice posts, Meta considered federating text transcripts, but ultimately decided to stick with sharing the audio. Reece Rogers, WIRED, 2 Feb. 2024 Keep Them Off Social Media Pew did not ask about such X alternatives as Meta’s Threads—which has seen downloads increase as X’s have waned—the open-source and federated Mastodon and the decentralized platform Bluesky. Rob Pegoraro, PCMAG, 31 Jan. 2024 One of Mastodon’s many charming qualities is that, unlike Twitter X, Bluesky, Instagram, and most other social media platforms, the user base is split across thousands of instances, each of which can decide to federate with or block any of the others. Nathan Edwards, The Verge, 21 Sep. 2023

Word History

Etymology

Adjective

Latin foederatus, from foeder-, foedus

First Known Use

Adjective

1672, in the meaning defined above

Verb

1580, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of federate was in 1580

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“Federate.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/federate. Accessed 1 Dec. 2024.

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federate

verb
fed·​er·​ate
ˈfed-ə-ˌrāt
federated; federating
: to join in a federation

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