# network
## English
### Etymology

Compound of net +‎ work.

### Pronunciation

* (UK) IPA: /ˈnɛt.wɜːk/
* (General American) IPA: /ˈnɛt.wɝk/
** Audio (US):(file)
* Rhymes: -ɛtwɜː(ɹ)k

### Noun

network (plural networks)
* A fabric or structure of fibrous elements attached to each other at regular intervals.
** 1911, James George Frazer, The Golden Bough, volume 9, page 287:He wore a mantle of network.
* Any interconnected group or system
    A network of roads crisscrossed the country.
* A directory of people maintained for their advancement
    To get a job in today's economy, it is important to have a strong network.
* (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), […]
* (computing, Internet) 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.

#### Hyponyms

* 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
* 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

* 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
* 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 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

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#### References

* network on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

### Verb

network (third-person singular simple present networks, present participle networking, simple past and past participle networked)
* (intransitive) To interact socially for the purpose of getting connections or personal advancement.
    Many people find it worthwhile to network for jobs and information.
* (transitive) 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.
* (transitive) To interconnect a group or system.
* (transitive, broadcasting) To broadcast across an entire network of stations and affiliates at the same time.

#### Translations

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### References

* “network”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
* network in Keywords for Today: A 21st Century Vocabulary, edited by The Keywords Project, Colin MacCabe, Holly Yanacek, 2018.
* William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “network”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.