verteilten

Verteilten is the past participle of the German verb verteilen (to distribute). It is not a standalone noun but an inflected form used as an adjective or as part of a participial phrase. In attributive position before nouns, it takes endings that signal number and case, most commonly appearing in plural phrases such as verteilten Aufgaben (distributed tasks) or verteilte Systeme (distributed systems). In the dative plural, for example in in verteilten Systemen, the form verteilten appears after a definite determiner.

In computing and information technology, the term is encountered in the German expression verteilte Systeme, meaning distributed systems. Such architectures involve multiple computers or nodes that coordinate to provide a unified service, enabling scalability, redundancy, and parallel processing. Other common phrases include verteilte Anwendungen (distributed applications) and verteilte Datenverarbeitung (distributed data processing).

Outside technical contexts, verteilten can appear in general German grammar as a past participle used as an adjective, with endings varying according to gender, number, and case. It thus illustrates how participles from the verb verteilen are integrated into adjectival use in modern German. The term is primarily linguistic and technical in usage; as a stand-alone concept it functions as a grammatical form rather than as an independent notion.