networking
Americannoun
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a supportive system of sharing information and services among individuals and groups having a common interest.
Working mothers in the community use networking to help themselves manage successfully.
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Digital Technology. the design, establishment, or utilization of a computer network.
adjective
noun
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computing the interconnection of two or more networks in different places, as in working at home with a link to a central computer in an office
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forming business connections and contacts through informal social meetings
adjective
Etymology
Origin of networking
Example Sentences
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"We're now planning to explore applications in quantum networking and error-resilient quantum information processing."
From Science Daily • Jun. 12, 2026
Amazon’s capex will go primarily toward Amazon Web Services’ data centers, servers, networking equipment and power needs, CEO Andy Jassy wrote in the company’s April letter to shareholders.
From MarketWatch • Jun. 10, 2026
Looking ahead, the platform will establish a framework for future deployments of XPU-based compute capacity and networking infrastructure aimed at lowering the cost and power requirements of AI model training and inference, it added.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 9, 2026
The collaboration will help Broadcom offer customized accelerators and networking solutions to frontier AI labs like Anthropic and OpenAI.
From Barron's • Jun. 9, 2026
Text messages had been sent earlier than 1999, but that was a key year because a Japanese phone carrier, NTT DoCoMo, built the i-mode networking standard, which allowed for the exchange of mobile data.
From "A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age" by Matt Richtel
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