different between consumer vs superdistribution

English

Etymology

consume +? -er

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /k?n?sju?m?/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /k?n?sum?/
• Rhymes: -u?m?(r)

Noun

consumer (plural consumers)

1. One who, or that which, consumes.
2. (economics) Someone who trades money for goods or services as an individual.

   Antonym: producer

3. (by extension) The consumer base of a product, service or business.

4. (ecology) An organism (heterotroph) that uses other organisms for food in order to gain energy.

   Antonym: producer

   Hyponyms: carnivore, decomposer, detritivore, first-order consumer, herbivore, omnivore, scavenger, second-order consumer

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Translations

Further reading

• consumer on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• consumer at OneLook Dictionary Search
• consumer in Keywords for Today: A 21st Century Vocabulary, edited by The Keywords Project, Colin MacCabe, Holly Yanacek, 2018.
• "consumer" in Raymond Williams, Keywords (revised), 1983, Fontana Press, page 78.
• consumer in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Anagrams

• cornmuse, mucrones

French

Etymology

Latin c?ns?mere.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k??.sy.me/

Verb

consumer

1. to consume; to use up
2. (figuratively) to consume

   Synonym: consommer

Conjugation

Related terms

• consommer

Further reading

• “consumer” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

English

Etymology

super- +? distribution

Noun

superdistribution (countable and uncountable, plural superdistributions)

1. (uncountable) The distribution of digital products (such as software or music) in an encrypted form so that one consumer can pass them on to another, while the original distributor retains control over use and modification.
2. (countable, statistics) Any of various generalizations of a distribution, especially a common distribution that results from applying a single mapping to any distribution from a body of source distributions, which forms the basis of encryption used in the superdistribution of digital products.