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splinternet

splinternet noun: a fragmented internet, or one of its separate parts.

Noun

splinternet (countable and uncountable, plural splinternets)

  1. A fragmented internet, or one of its separate parts.
    • Wise words from one of advertising's elder statesmen, who has seen the industry evolve from TV, radio, and print to today's splinternet.2012, Rachel Pasqua, Noah Elkin, Mobile Marketing: An Hour a Day
    • Increasingly, writers refer to internets or splinternets as ways to describe an increasingly fragmented web in which power brokers create limited access to the Web and the curricular informality of connectivity is challenged by formality.2012, Wayne D. Bowman, Ana Lucía Frega, The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy in Music Education, page 468

Forms of splinternet

pluralsplinternets

Origin of splinternet

Blend of splinter + internet.

Questions about splinternet

What does splinternet mean?
Splinternet means a fragmented internet, or one of its separate parts.
What part of speech is splinternet?
Splinternet is a noun.
What is the plural of splinternet?
The plural of splinternet is splinternets.

Words near splinternet in the dictionary

  1. splinterized
  2. splinterizes
  3. splinterizing
  4. splinterless
  5. splinterlike
  6. splinternet
  7. splinternets
  8. splinterproof
  9. splinters
  10. splinters up
  11. splintery

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