internetted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɪntənɛtɪd/
ipa: /ˌɪntəˈnɛtɪd/
ipa: /ˈɪntɚˌnɛtəd/
ipa: /ˌɪntɚˈnɛtəd/
ipa: [-ɾɚ-]
ipa: [-ɾəd]
Forms: form: more internetted
form: most internetted
Etymology: PIE word
 *h₁én
The adjective is derived from inter- (prefix meaning ‘amid, among; between’) + netted (“forming a network”, adjective).
The verb is derived from internet + -ed (suffix forming past tense and past participle forms of regular verbs).
Senses: examples: text: Her hair, flowing beneath her head-dress of cerulean silk, ornamented with crimson and surmounted by a gold-embroidered crown, was internetted with minute spiculæ of gold about the size of a spangle, and fell like the fabulous tiara of a mermaid upon her shoulders.
ref: 1849, W[illiam] F[rancis] Lynch, “From Jerusalem to Jaffa”, in Narrative of the United States’ Expedition to the River Jordan and the Dead Sea, […], London: Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, page 450:
text: She displayed a flaring netted purse of green and orange and scarlet interwoven, or rather, we should say, internetted with gilt and steel beds, with gilt rings, and gilt and steel tassels.
ref: 1850, [Elizabeth] Stone, chapter XIII, in Mr. Dalton’s Legatee, a Very Nice Woman. […], volume II, London: Thomas Cautley Newby, […], →OCLC, pages 176–177:
text: Yonder I'll rest awhile, for now I see, / Through meshes of the internetted leaves, / A little plot, girt with a living wall; […]
ref: 1852 January 1, E. W. Ellsworth, “Ariadne”, in The International Monthly Magazine of Literature, Science, and Art, volume V, number 1, New York, N.Y.: Stringer & Townsend, […], →OCLC, stanza III, page 47, column 1:
text: There is a second coat, lining the interior of the sclerotic, which consists of minute vessels, arteries and veins, closely internetted, and is called the choroid.
ref: 1857, Edward L[ivingston] Youmans, “Structure and Optical Powers of the Eye”, in The Hand-book of Household Science. […], New York, N.Y.; London: D[aniel] Appleton & Co., […], →OCLC, 2nd part (Light), paragraph 235, page 128:
text: [I]t may be truly and gratefully said, these roots, internetted with the very life-fibres of human sustenance, have been brought to their present perfection and value.
ref: 1864, Elihu Burritt, chapter VIII, in A Walk from London to John O’Groat’s, with Notes by the Way. […], London: Sampson Low, Son & Marston, […], →OCLC, page 146:
text: [A] little outline of the mathematical form […] will aid readers of Mr. [Charles] Morris's paper, […] in thereby discussing and estimating very easily and fairly the positive truth, in general, or in a few points, of the paper's considerations, the just degree of reliability at all events, which the marvellous maze of internetted motions possesses, […]
ref: 1883 March 15, A[lexander] S[tewart] Herschel, “The Matter of Space [letter]”, in Nature: A Weekly Illustrated Journal of Science, volume XXVII, number 698, London; New York, N.Y.: Macmillan and Co., →OCLC, page 458:
text: Strengthened by technology and working as internetted "teams of teams," the potential exists for staffs to greatly streamline and accelerate sound and creative planning, decision making and control.
ref: 1996 March–April, Huba Wass de Czege, Jacob Biever, “Optimizing Future Battle Command Technologies”, in Lee J. Hockman, editor, Military Review: The Professional Journal of the U.S. Army, volume LXXVIII, number 2, Fort Leavenworth, Kan.: United States Army Command and General Staff College, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 18, column 2:
text: In the Army's Force XXI Operations, a new form of battle command based on a nonhierarchial—or "Internetted"—structure is envisioned. Internetted structures refer to those entities that rely upon a structure resembling neural networks, with individual nodes connected to one another in "web-like" patterns. […] Because of the robust properties of this design, it was foreseen during the Cold War that such an Internetted U.S. communications structure would have a better chance of surviving a potential nuclear exchange than the more traditional existing structure.
ref: 1996 June, Robert J. Bunker, “Street Gangs—Future Paramilitary Groups?”, in The Police Chief, volume 58, number 6, Alexandria, Va.: International Association of Chiefs of Police, →ISSN, →OCLC, pages 30–35; republished in Robert J. Bunker, John P. Sullivan, Studies in Gangs and Cartels, Abingdon, Oxfordshire; New York, N.Y.: Routledge, 2014, →ISBN, section I (Source Documents), page 32:
text: [T]he term netwar refers to an emerging mode of conflict (and crime) at societal levels, involving measures short of traditional war, in which the protagonists use network forms of organization and related doctrines, strategies, and technologies attuned to the information age. These protagonists are likely to consist of dispersed small groups who communicate, coordinate, and conduct their campaigns in an internetted manner, without a precise central command.
ref: 1999, David Ronfeldt, John Arquilla, Graham E. Fuller, Melissa Fuller, “The Advent of Netwar: Analytic Background”, in The Zapatista Social Netwar in Mexico, Santa Monica, Calif.: RAND, →ISBN, page 9:
text: The IBCT [infantry brigade combat team] will offset the lethality and survivability limitations of its platforms through the holistic integration of all other force capabilities, particularly the internetted actions of the combined arms company teams.
ref: 2004, “Phase I Report: Operational Test Design and Evaluation of the Interim Armored Vehicle”, in Improved Operational Testing and Evaluation and Methods of Combining Test Information for the Stryker Family of Vehicles and Related Army Systems: Phase II Report, Washington, D.C.: National Academies Press, →ISBN, page 118:
synonyms: interwoven
glosses: Entwined or linked together so as to form a network; interconnected, networked.
Related terms: interlinked