Definition of "federated" []

• Simple past tense and past participle of federate. (verb)
• United, as a federation, under a central government (adjective)

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• "A single-origin federated identity network will always fail on the internet (as Joseph Smarr and John McCrea like to say of Facebook Connect: We’ve seen this movie before)."
• "So-called federated identity management allows agency and corporate sites to trust credentials that are issued by an outside entity."
• "True, they are indirectly elected to the Sound Transit board, but there's a reason the agency has what is known as a federated system."