network
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Etymology tree
From net + work; the nonliteral sense and its subsenses are extended from the literal sense; they are now the dominant senses. Cognate with German Netzwerk.
Pronunciation
[edit]- (UK) IPA(key): /ˈnɛt.wɜːk/
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈnɛt.wɝk/
- Rhymes: -ɛtwɜː(ɹ)k
Noun
[edit]network (countable and uncountable, plural networks)
- Any interconnected group or system.
- A network of roads crisscrossed the country.
- The many species that live in the forest canopy constitute a network of life via their complex interactions.
- A set of people with sociocultural connections to one another; especially, such a set consisting of occupational or business connections.
- To get a job in today's economy, it is important to have a strong network.
- For people with mental health challenges, having a support network of family and friends can improve the chances of maintaining successful mental health care.
- (broadcasting) A group of affiliated television stations that broadcast common programs from a parent company.
- 2008, Lou Schuler, "Foreward", in Nate Green, Built for Show, page xi
- TV back then was five channels (three networks, PBS, and an independent station that ran I Love Lucy reruns), […]
- 2008, Lou Schuler, "Foreward", in Nate Green, Built for Show, page xi
- (computing, Internet) A computer network: multiple computers and other devices connected together to share information.
- The copy machine is connected to the network so it can now serve as a printer.
- (literal) A fabric or structure of fibrous elements attached to each other at regular intervals; the act or process of making such an object.
- 1911, James George Frazer, The Golden Bough, volume 9, page 287:
- He wore a mantle of network.
Hyponyms
[edit]- cellular network
- computer network
- default mode network
- dumb network
- echo state network
- economic network
- e-network
- filtered-popping recursive transition network
- Hopfield network
- Kohonen network
- local area network
- low network
- mesh network
- metropolitan area network
- mission-critical network
- mobile network
- mobile telephone network
- neural network
- onion network
- personal area network
- social network
- storage area network
- telephone network
- television network
- trans-Golgi network
- value-added network
- virtual network
- virtual private network
- whisper network
- wide area network
- wide-area network
- wireless network
- zombie network
Derived terms
[edit]- affiliate network
- Bayesian network
- bionetwork
- co-occurrence network
- cybernetwork
- Elman network
- Feistel network
- fragnet
- generative adversarial network
- good old boy network
- hypernetwork
- integrated services digital network
- internetwork
- intranetwork
- Jordan network
- logistics network
- mesonet
- mesonetwork
- metanetwork
- micronetwork
- mobile virtual network operator
- multinetwork
- nanonetwork
- networkability
- networkable
- network adapter
- network card
- network effect
- network engineer
- networker
- network externality
- networking
- network interface card
- network interface controller
- network marketing
- network motif
- network neutrality
- network option time
- network printer
- network provider
- network proxy
- Network Rail
- network socket
- network state
- network subsystem
- network-subsystem
- network television
- network time
- network topology
- networkwide
- next-generation network
- nonnetwork
- old-boy network
- old boy network
- semantic network
- small-world network
- spiking neural network
- spin network
- subnetwork
- supernetwork
- supply network
- supranetwork
- television network
- transportation network
- transportation network vehicle service
- two-port network
- your network is your net worth
- your net worth is your network
Translations
[edit]fabric or structure of fibrous elements
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interconnected group or system
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