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n. 1 A large population of army ants on the move, eating anything in their wake. 2 crowd
Wikipedia
Marabunta is a fully distributed software application for anonymous P2P. The main goal is the fight against internet censorship and assuring the freedom of speech. It is a peer-to-peer platform for information exchange among nodes in an anonymous way based on several communication algorithms called "Order and Chaos" which can be found in massive social organizations such as ant colonies.
The project was founded at the University of Zaragoza, Spain, developed and promoted by students of computing engineering although development teams and users from many different places have shown interest, perhaps attracted by the ideological aims of the project. The software is available in Spanish and English, the website is also available in English.
Marabunta uses the Qt graphical widget toolkit, allowing it to be used on both Linux and Microsoft Windows. Released under the GNU General Public License, Marabunta is free software.
Marabunta may refer to any of the following:
- Cheliomyrmex andicola, an army ant
- Marabunta (wasp), a colloquial name for large stinging wasps in South America
- Marabunta, an anonymous P2P application
- Marabunta (film), a film
- Marabounta is an episode of Code Lyoko, the plot is based on the Marabunta theory of ant colonies.
- Name used for the army ants in movie The Naked Jungle.
Usage examples of "marabunta".
It was good to hunt again, good to ride the swift marabunta after the condemned ones, good to trail and trap and kill.
Beneath Duma, the marabunta paused to swing its giant clicking antennae toward a patch of reed-shadow near the inner ravine wall.
And, as they rode, as the scorched brown land passed beneath them under the steady march of the marabunta and the sun fell slowly down the western sky, Logan told her everything.
The heat of the plains had now given way to the blowing cold of the upper mountain, and Logan halted the marabunta long enough for them to put on the thermosuits and snowgoggles Nyoka had provided.
Duma, the marabunta paused to swing its giant clicking antennae toward a patch of reed-shadow near the inner ravine wall.
Logan halted the marabunta long enough for them to put on the thermosuits and snowgoggles Nyoka had provided.