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Internet definition

Inter·net (in′tər net′)

noun

an extensive computer network made up of thousands of other, smaller business, academic, and governmental networks

Etymology: < inter- + net(work)

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2005 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

Alternate definitions:

hacker Internet definition - hacker

telecom internet definition - telecom

Internet Usage Examples

Object

  • resource: BUBL - Engineering - Links to internet resources in specific engineering subjects.

Modifies a noun

  • marketer: As a beginning internet marketer there are some basic things you should know about how search engines spider and index your web site.

Modifying Another Word

  • also: The is also internet access located in the Level 2 café .

Present participle complement

  • date: If and when you do go back to internet dating, you need to be much more ruthless.
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Internet quotes

A fundamental new rule for business is that the Internet changes everything.

-Gates, Bill (William Henry III)

The Internet is becoming the town square for the global village of tomorrow.

-Gates, Bill (William Henry III)

   The Internet has taken shape with startlingly little planning† The most universal and indispensable network on the planet somehow burgeoned without so muchasa boardofdirectors, never minda mergers-and- acquisitions department. There is a paradoxical lesson here for strategists. In economic terms, the great corporations are acting like socialist planners, while old- fashioned free-market capitalism blossoms at their feet.

-Gleick,James

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