internetwork
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of internetwork
First recorded in 1890–95; inter- ( def. ) + network ( def. ), loan translation of German Zwischennetz originally for an earlier botanical sense “interconnected network”
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By the mid-nineteen-seventies, researchers across the country had developed a network of networks: an internetwork, or, later, an “internet.”
From The New Yorker ● Jan. 19, 2015
Was this the start of an internetwork auction?
From Time Magazine Archive
He called up NBC's News Chief Abe Schechter, reached an internetwork understanding.
From Time Magazine Archive
Alfred Kreymborg's first full-hour poetic radio drama, a peace allegory, entered against Ibsen in an internetwork culture competition.
From Time Magazine Archive
Set of communications protocols that internetwork dissimilar systems connected to the Internet.
From The Online World by Odd De Presno
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