information superhighway
a large-scale communications network providing a variety of often interactive services, as text databases, email, and audio and video materials, accessed through computers, television sets, etc.
Origin of information superhighway
1- Also called da·ta high·way.
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How to use information superhighway in a sentence
For all your apps and devices that want to stream data, it’s the equivalent of adding a whole new lane to your home’s information superhighway.
CES goes full pandemic with smart masks, stickers to detect covid and the biggest WiFi update in years | Geoffrey Fowler, Heather Kelly, Dalvin Brown, Rachel Lerman | January 12, 2021 | Washington PostThe creation of the multi-lane information superhighway has created a traffic problem.
Startup Bright Uses Technology to Improve Job-Seeking Process | Melissa Lafsky | October 4, 2012 | THE DAILY BEASTAnd I call on the Congress to pass legislation to establish that information superhighway this year.
British Dictionary definitions for information superhighway
the concept of a worldwide network of computers capable of transferring all types of digital information at high speed
another name for the internet
- Informal name: information highway
Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
Cultural definitions for information superhighway
A term that describes all of the infrastructure, including cable, satellites, and assorted hardware, that allows information to be transferred at great speed over large distances to all people.
Notes for information superhighway
The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy, Third Edition Copyright © 2005 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.
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