internet
IPA: ˈɪntɝnɛt
noun
- (uncountable) Internet access or connection; internet connectivity.
- (countable) Any set of computer networks that communicate using the Internet Protocol; an intranet.
- (uncountable) Collectively, the users of the Internet.
- (Internet slang, humorous) A fictitious unit of scoring awarded for making outstanding posts on the internet.
- The specific internet consisting of a global network of computers that communicate using Internet Protocol (IP) and that use Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) to identify the best paths to route those communications.
- specific internet consisting of a global network of computers
- Alternative letter-case form of Internet (“the specific internet consisting of a global network of computers that communicate using Internet Protocol (IP) and that use Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) to identify the best paths to route those communications”) [The specific internet consisting of a global network of computers that communicate using Internet Protocol (IP) and that use Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) to identify the best paths to route those communications.]
verb
- (intransitive, Internet, informal) To use the Internet; specifically, to search for information using the Internet.
- (archaic, rare) To entwine or link (several things) together, so as to form a network; to interconnect, to network.
- (specifically, networking) To connect (a computer, an electronic device, etc.) into a computer network (in particular, the Internet).
Examples of "internet" in Sentences
- He is addicted to the Internet.
- It's the scourge of the Internet.
- Everyone's lithe on the Internet
- This is the power of the Internet.
- The router accesses the Internet through the modem.
- In 2000, it had the largest Internet telephony network in the world.
- The basic problem was the lack of internet access back in the eighties.
- Internet mapping is the study of the physical connectivity of the Internet.
- Nowadays, the Internet allows you to access to any information that you want.
- All evidence suggests that keeping computers off the internet is a losing battle.
- The internet allows global networks to thrive in a way that wasn't fathomable 15 20 years ago.
- Also, since the internet is broadband and always on, @computer and @internet are always the same.
- Entry tags: strange coincidences, the internet is a series of tubes if you like double helixes ...
- The term internet marketing is still somewhat slippery, and may mean different things to different people.
- The correct rule, obviously, is to judge internet obscenity by the standards of the *appropriate community on the internet*.
- * internet*, and even a visit to the EG Expo would show that gamers in real life aren't the same as they are on the internet.
- Entry tags: crazy tourists, good little girls, macho macho macho man, the internet is a series of tubes, tv rots your brain, words like violence
- One of the first microlenders to have an impact over the internet is the US-based Kiva, which began a few years after a couple traveled to East Africa in 2004.
- So while the internet is able to recover in a reasonable period of time after damage to the routers, it is more susceptible to the cutting of the links between the routers.