The following are SharePoint Dictionary Words of the Day Related to Federated:
Federated location
A source which returns search results for a given query. The source can from a local search catalog or an Opensearch compliant search engine.
Federated location definition
Configuration settings which describe how to issue a query for a given federated location and then display the search results.
Federation
Issues a query to multiple federated locations designated by federated location definitions which ar utilized to return the results in a single search results page.
