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loosely coupled replication

See Also: replication

  1. [ESRI software] A replication model that does not require the parent and child replicas to be directly connected for synchronization to occur. Loosely coupled replication is an asynchronous model, so edits made in one replica have no effect on other related replicas until synchronization. Synchronization can be executed manually, or it can be automated.