A client-server network is a distributed communications architecture in which a centralized server receives and responds to requests for services and data from multiple clients. For example, a browser ...

(1) A communications network that uses dedicated servers. In this context, the term is used to contrast it with a peer-to-peer network, which allows any client to also be a server. (2) A network that ...

Client-server is a relationship in which one program, the client, requests a service or resource from another program, the server. The label client-server was previously used to distinguish ...