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network

Pronunciation: /ˈnɛt.wɜːk/

The English word “network” has 9 meanings listed here.

noun

  1. Any interconnected group or system.
  2. A set of people with sociocultural connections to one another; especially, such a set consisting of occupational or business connections.
  3. A group of affiliated television stations that broadcast common programs from a parent company.
  4. A computer network: multiple computers and other devices connected together to share information.
  5. A fabric or structure of fibrous elements attached to each other at regular intervals; the act or process of making such an object.

verb

  1. To interact socially for the purpose of getting connections or personal advancement.
  2. To connect two or more computers or other computerized devices.
  3. To interconnect a group or system.
  4. To broadcast across an entire network of stations and affiliates at the same time.

Etymology

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.

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