network
nounEtymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *neHd- Proto-Indo-European *-yós Proto-Germanic *natją Proto-West Germanic *nati Old English nett Middle English net English net Proto-Indo-European *werǵ- Proto-Indo-European *-om Proto-Indo-European *wérǵom Proto-Germanic *werką Proto-West Germanic *werk Old English weorc Middle English werk English work English network 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.
Definitions
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 fabric or structure of fibrous elements attached to each other at regular intervals
A fabric or structure of fibrous elements attached to each other at regular intervals; the act or process of making such an object.
- He wore a mantle of network.
To interact socially for the purpose of getting connections or personal advancement.
- Many people find it worthwhile to network for jobs and information.
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To connect two or more computers or other computerized devices.
- If we network his machine to the server, he will be able to see all the files.
To interconnect a group or system.
To broadcast across an entire network of stations and affiliates at the same time.
The neighborhood
- neighborchainwork
- neighborknitwork
- neighborlacework
- neighborneedlework
- neighborcellular network
- neighborcomputer network
- neighbordefault mode network
- neighbordumb network
- neighborecho state network
- neighboreconomic network
- neighbore-network
- neighborfiltered-popping recursive transition network
Derived
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 · +28 more
Vish — recursive loop
A definitional loop anchored at network. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.
A definitional loop anchored at network. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.
8 hops · closes at network
curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA