{ Read my previous post to know about BitTorrent...}
1) Peer
A peer is another computer on the internet that you connect to and transfer data. A peer does not have the complete file. It has bits ans pieces of data.
2) Torrent
Torrent refers to the small metadata file you receive from the web server. A metadata is data about another data. More on Torrents in my next post.
3) Seed
Seed is a computer that has a complete copy of a certain file. This file is divided and shared among many clients.
4) Swarm
The group of machines that are collectively connected for a particular file.
5) Tracker
A server on the Internet that acts to coordinate the action of BitTorrent clients.
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You forgot the Client. Client is the software installed in the user's computer that will download the torrents. For eg. KTorrent(A client for Linux).
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