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Peer-to-peer (P2P)

nounid 3538·updated Aug 30, 2026
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Peer-to-peer communication, the communications that travel from one user's computer to another user's computer without being stored for later access on a server. E-mail is not a P2P communication since it travels from the sender to a server, and is retrieved by the recipient from the server. On-line chat, however, is a P2P communication since messages travel directly from one user to another.

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Classifications

Entity Type

Network0%rule-basedmulti_axis_classifier_low_confidence.v1

Sensitivity

90%llm-generatedllm:claude-haiku-4-5

Information Class

90%llm-generatedllm:claude-haiku-4-5

Variants

plural
Peer-to-peer (P2P)S
possessive
Peer-to-peer (P2P)'s
pluralpossessive
Peer-to-peer (P2P)S'

Framework definitions

Federal Financial Institutions Examination Council (FFIEC) IT Examination Handbook Infobase, Glossary1 senseview framework →
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Peer-to-peer communication, the communications that travel from one user's computer to another user's computer without being stored for later access on a server. E-mail is not a P2P communication since it travels from the sender to a server, and is retrieved by the recipient from the server. On-line chat, however, is a P2P communication since messages travel directly from one user to another.
Legacy lexicon import1 senseview framework →
§1 · legacy_primary
Peer-to-peer communication, the communications that travel from one user's computer to another user's computer without being stored for later access on a server. E-mail is not a P2P communication since it travels from the sender to a server, and is retrieved by the recipient from the server. On-line chat, however, is a P2P communication since messages travel directly from one user to another.
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