internetwork

American  

[in-ter-net-wurk] / ˌɪn tərˈnɛtˌwɜrk /

noun

Digital Technology.

1. two or more computer networks connected by routers, bridges, etc..

   The internet is the largest internetwork.

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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”

Example Sentences

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

Alfred Kreymborg's first full-hour poetic radio drama, a peace allegory, entered against Ibsen in an internetwork culture competition.

From Time Magazine Archive

He called up NBC's News Chief Abe Schechter, reached an internetwork understanding.

From Time Magazine Archive

Set of communications protocols that internetwork dissimilar systems connected to the Internet.

From The Online World by De Presno, Odd