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thinnet

thinnet noun: 10BASE2, a form of Ethernet using a thin coaxial cable.

Noun (1)

thinnet (countable and uncountable, plural thinnets)

  1. 10BASE2, a form of Ethernet using a thin coaxial cable
    • The most common type of cable used for small networks is thin coaxial cable, usually called thinnet.1996, Doug Lowe, Networking for Dummies, page 115

Noun (2)

thinnet (plural thinnets)

  1. (rare) A sparse thicket.
    • Most of my bounds are stone walls, lichen gray or mossy green, they lie not by open fields but in spruce thickets, in maple thinnets and pine groves, across brooks and steep hillsides.1994, Ronald Jager, Last House on the Road: Excursions Into a Rural Past, page 164
    • We are in a wood, walking in single file through thinnets of birch with a pale sunlight falling.1999, Indra Sinha, The Cybergypsies: A True Tale of Lust, War, and Betrayal on the Electronic Frontier

Forms of thinnet

pluralthinnets

Origin of thinnet

From thin + net.

Questions about thinnet

What does thinnet mean?
Thinnet means 10BASE2, a form of Ethernet using a thin coaxial cable.
What part of speech is thinnet?
Thinnet is a noun.
What is the plural of thinnet?
The plural of thinnet is thinnets.

Words near thinnet in the dictionary

  1. thinner
  2. thinners
  3. thinness
  4. thinnesses
  5. thinnest
  6. thinnet
  7. thinnets
  8. thinnies
  9. thinning
  10. thinning down
  11. thinning out

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