Meaning peer
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n. an equal. A "jury of one's peers," to which criminal defendant...
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In networking, any functional unit in the same layer as another entity.
Source: docs.oracle.com

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A Peer is a member of the House of Lords. Most members are Life Peers although 92 sit by virtue of hereditary title. Life Peers are appointed by the Queen on the advice of the Prime Minister to serve [..]
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c. 1300, "an equal in rank or status" (early 13c. in Anglo-Latin), from Anglo-French peir, Old French per (10c.), from Latin par "equal" (see par (n.)). Sense of "a noble" [..]
Source: etymonline.com

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"to look closely," 1590s, variant of piren (late 14c.), with a long -i-, probably related to or from East Frisian piren "to look," of uncertain origin. Influenced in form and sense [..]
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to glance or gaze.
Source: nationalgeographic.org

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colleague, coworker, or equal.
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In networking, any functional unit in the same layer as another entity.
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In networking, a device to which a computer has a network connection that is relatively symmetrical, i.e. where both devices can initiate or respond to a similar set of requests.
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1) An equal. (See: jury of one's peers) 2) A member of the nobility in Great Britain.
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a person who is of equal standing with another in a group look searchingly; "We peered into the back of the shop to see whether a salesman was around" a nobleman (duke or mar [..]
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a nobleman, usually with the rank of Lord. The same word also means to look very closely
Source: eenglish.in

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 to peep out.
Source: shakespeare-online.com

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A Cloudera Manager instance that manages clusters and is used as the source of data to be replicated. See replication
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A peer is a person's equal. The U.S. Constitution guarantees criminal defendants a "jury of one's peers," which means an impartial group of citizens from the judicial district (e.g [..]
Source: definitions.uslegal.com

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A peer is one end of a network socket; the message connection reset by peer is given when the other end of a socket is lost, perhaps because a program exited or a system crashed.
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Associated with each Component are three objects: the standard AWT (Advanced Windowing Toolkit) button object. a peer mirroring interfacing button object constructed in the style that the native GUI ( [..]
Source: mindprod.com

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An individual client (usually representing an individual computer and individual person) on a file-sharing network.
Source: fact-uk.org.uk

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Any provider involved in a business relationship to handle Internet traffic through a peering arrangement.
Source: help.dyn.com

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(n) a person who is of equal standing with another in a group(n) a nobleman (duke or marquis or earl or viscount or baron) who is a member of the British peerage(v) look searchingly
Source: beedictionary.com

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  Someone of the same age/status/ability as you.  Your classmates are your peers, but instructors and professors are not.
Source: nau.edu

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Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (NJ)
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avocado pear. (5)
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 -  When two programs are sending data to each other over a network, they are peers. This term is usually seen in the phrase "remote peer", meaning "the host
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A term used of the Abstract Windowing Toolkit (AWT) to refer to the underlying classes that provide the platform-specific implementation of component classes.
Source: cs.kent.ac.uk

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This term refers to one side of a connection. The client
Source: doc.photonengine.com

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Programme for Enhancement of Emergency Response
Source: bankingglossary.bankingonly.com

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Other computers on the network also running an Ethereum node (Geth) with an exact copy of the blockchain that you have.
Source: ethdocs.org

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Structure onto which the ship moors in order to carry out the embarkation and disembarkation of passengers or goods.
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(more common)
Source: en.wiktionary.org

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Today the term is used in phrases such as "peer of the realm" or "a jury of my peers". In either case the term means "equal" in legal or social status, and so it was with [..]
Source: users.trytel.com

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Variant of Per. The Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen used this name for the main character in his play Peer Gynt (1867).
Source: behindthename.com





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