Network
['netwɜːk] or ['nɛtwɝk]
Definition
(noun.) (broadcasting) a communication system consisting of a group of broadcasting stations that all transmit the same programs; 'the networks compete to broadcast important sports events'.
(noun.) (electronics) a system of interconnected electronic components or circuits.
(noun.) a system of intersecting lines or channels; 'a railroad network'; 'a network of canals'.
(noun.) an interconnected system of things or people; 'he owned a network of shops'; 'retirement meant dropping out of a whole network of people who had been part of my life'; 'tangled in a web of cloth'.
(verb.) communicate with and within a group; 'You have to network if you want to get a good job'.
Checker: Pamela--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) A fabric of threads, cords, or wires crossing each other at certain intervals, and knotted or secured at the crossings, thus leaving spaces or meshes between them.
(n.) Any system of lines or channels interlacing or crossing like the fabric of a net; as, a network of veins; a network of railroads.
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Examples
- It consists of copper plates on a network of iron. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- By the middle of the century a network of railways had spread all over Europe. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- If it were not for this use of the earth as an unfailing conductor, the network of overhead wires in our city streets would be even more complex than it now is. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- For thirty years, he produced and distributed Project Gutenberg-tm eBooks with only a loose network of volunteer support. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- This leaves a film of ink on the veins and network of the leaf, which should then be placed on a piece of blank paper and considerable pressure applied for a few moments. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
- He was now beginning to find out what that cleverness was--what was the shape into which it had run as into a close network aloof and independent. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- To him Mr. Edison assigned the task of making a complete model of the network of conductors for the contemplated first station in New York. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
Checker: Susie