<p><strong>Adjective:</strong></p><ul><li>Computers:<ul><li>being or relating to a network of devices, workstations, etc., in different locations connected by means of one or more other networks, allowing each member to carry out some or all of the management and processing of the shared information.</li><li>being or relating to a single database shared across such a network, especially one integrating multiple smaller databases.</li></ul></li><li>Linguistics:<ul><li>(in distinctive feature analysis) characterized by relatively extensive contact or constriction between the articulating organs, as the [sh] in show in contrast to the [s] in so.</li></ul></li><li>Statistics:<ul><li>showing a specified type of distribution.</li></ul></li></ul>