- 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 marquis or earl or viscount or baron) who is a member of the British peerage
- Peer-to-peer (P2P) computing or networking is a distributed application architecture that partitions tasks or work loads between peers. Peers are equally privileged, equipotent participants in the application. They are said to form a peer-to-peer network of nodes.
- Peers is a surname, and may refer to: * Donald Peers * Edgar Allison Peers, an English academician * Gavin Peers * Kerry Peers * Michael Peers * Teddy Peers (1886-1935), Welsh international footballer
* William R. Peers, an American General who investigated the My Lai Massacre
- Somebody or something who/that is at an equal level; A noble with a hereditary title, i.e., a peerage, and in times past, with certain rights and privileges not enjoyed by commoners; To look with difficulty, or as if searching for something
- (Peers) a section of the British Houses of Parliament, the House of Lords, the House of Peers
- (Peers) Equals; those who are an individual's equals in rank and station.
- (Peers) People of the same age who share a similar range of interests.
- (Peers) The children around a child eg. the other children in their class
- feedback is given by a colleague or peer
- 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 that you are exchanging data with".
- A professional artist or arts professional experienced in an applicant’s discipline or working in the same artistic tradition as the applicant whose work is being assessed
- E. to quickly look at ST, usually ST you are not supposed to
- an individual who is in some way equal to the person with whom they are being compared on a specific dimension.
- The other end of the point-to-point link.
- A node participating in a P2PSIP Overlay that provides storage and transport services to other nodes in that P2PSIP Overlay. Each Peer has a unique identifier, known as a Peer-ID, within the Overlay. Each Peer may be coupled to one or more SIP entities. ...
- A peer is the same as a leecher, but without the negative connotation.
- A member of one of the three groups: Knight, Laurel, or Pelican. While some awards only count in the kingdom in which they were given, a Peer is recognized throughout the SCA world.
- In this context, peer is intended to refer to individuals who identify as having lived experience and a personal recovery story.
- Denotes a constituent side of a coupling. Whenever a coupling is defined, a designation is specified for each peer - one peer is designated primary and the other is designated secondary.
- In networking, any functional unit in the same layer as another entity.^1
- A Player discovers and interacts with other Players through their Peer records.
- A term used of the Abstract Windowing Toolkit (AWT) to refer to the underlying classes that provide the platform-specific implementation of component classes.
- A person who has received a Patent of Arms and who is considered to embody the ideals of chivalry and courtesy.