Word.ws English Dictionary

shared-nothing

shared-nothing adjective: of a distributed system or architecture: fulfilling each update request by a single node, so as to eliminate contention among nodes.

Adjective

shared-nothing (not comparable)

  1. Of a distributed system or architecture: fulfilling each update request by a single node, so as to eliminate contention among nodes.
    Synonyms:
    SN

Synonyms of shared-nothing

Questions about shared-nothing

What does shared-nothing mean?
Shared-nothing means of a distributed system or architecture: fulfilling each update request by a single node, so as to eliminate contention among nodes.
What part of speech is shared-nothing?
Shared-nothing is an adjective.

Words near shared-nothing in the dictionary

  1. shared taxis
  2. shared universe
  3. shared universes
  4. shared up
  5. shared use path
  6. shared-nothing
  7. sharedealer
  8. sharedealers
  9. sharedealing
  10. sharedness
  11. sharee

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: shared-nothing (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “shared-nothing.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/shared-nothing. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.