internetwork

[ in-ter-net-wurk ]

nounDigital Technology.
  1. two or more computer networks connected by routers, bridges, etc.: The internet is the largest internetwork.

Origin of internetwork

1
First recorded in 1890–95; inter- + network, loan translation of German Zwischennetz originally for an earlier botanical sense “interconnected network”

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