Abstracts often appear at the beginning of a scholarly or technical article.
Periodical indexes and other databases often contain abstracts that can help you decide whether an article is relevant for your purposes. Advanced Research Projects Agency Network See ARPAnet . On the Internet, these may be texts, programs, or images stored at an ftp site or a collection of messages saved from an electronic discussion group. An electronic communications system developed by the U. S. Defense Department in the 1960s to aid communication in the event of a nuclear war. A format for text that can be recognized by computers.