internet

Meanings

Proper Noun

• Alternate spelling of Internet; the Internet, the largest global internet.

Noun

• Any set of computer networks that communicate using the Internet Protocol. (An intranet.)
• An internet connection, internet connectivity, access to the internet.
• A fictitious unit of scoring, awarded for making outstanding posts.

Verb

• To use the Internet; to search for something using the Internet; to surf the Internet.
• To link together or entwine, so as to form a network.

Origin

• , as a shortening of internetwork, from inter- + network.