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Network   /nˈɛtwˌərk/   Listen
Network

noun
1.
An interconnected system of things or people.  Synonym: web.  "Retirement meant dropping out of a whole network of people who had been part of my life" , "Tangled in a web of cloth"
2.
(broadcasting) a communication system consisting of a group of broadcasting stations that all transmit the same programs.
3.
An open fabric of string or rope or wire woven together at regular intervals.  Synonyms: mesh, meshing, meshwork, net.
4.
A system of intersecting lines or channels.  "A network of canals"
5.
(electronics) a system of interconnected electronic components or circuits.  Synonym: electronic network.
verb
1.
Communicate with and within a group.



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"Network" Quotes from Famous Books



... better than Shane ever dreamed! I know enough to venture that this whole blessed little isle must have a base of igneous rock and the formation of this south end, especially, is impregnated with a network of gold-bearing dykes! Why, anyone could see that by the walls of this cave!" He bent, scooped up a handful of sand, and with eager, shining eyes watched while he spread it ...
— Where the Sun Swings North • Barrett Willoughby
... completed that of the last season. On leaving the glacier the year before they had marked a network of loose boulders, such as travel with the ice, and also a number of fixed points in the valley walls, comparing and registering their distance from each other. They had also sunk a line of stakes across the glacier. The change in the relative position ...
— Louis Agassiz: His Life and Correspondence • Louis Agassiz
... talked, Mr. Magee studied that portion of his delicate scholarly face that the beard left exposed to the world. What part had Thaddeus Bolton, holder of the Crandall Chair of Comparative Literature, in this network of odd alarms? Why was he at Baldpate? And why was he so little moved by the rapid changes in the make-up of the inn colony—changes that left Mr. Magee gasping? He took them as calmly as he would take his grapefruit at the breakfast-table. Only that morning Mr. ...
— Seven Keys to Baldpate • Earl Derr Biggers
... President Diaz and the greeting exchanged on both American and Mexican soil served, I hope, to signalize the close and cordial relations which so well bind together this Republic and the great Republic immediately to the south, between which there is so vast a network of material interests. ...
— Complete State of the Union Addresses from 1790 to the Present • Various
... turned up. She wore a fur toque, her boa rolled in a chilly way up to her chin, her little veil tightly tied on, which her lips pushed out and made in it a small round relief. But the best veil was the moist network of the protective mist. The mist was like a curtain of ashes, dense, grayish, with phosphorescent spots. One could not see farther than ten yards. It became thicker and thicker as they passed down the old streets perpendicular to the Seine. Friendly fog, in which ...
— Pierre and Luce • Romain Rolland


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