USENET
/ˈjuːz.nɛt/
USENET is the alternative letter-case form of Usenet.
Proper noun capitalized: Usenet
Usenet or the Usenet
- A world-wide distributed discussion system consisting of newsgroups that are classified hierarchically by subject.
- And as the Carnegie Mellon study is careful to point out, pornographic image files, despite their evident popularity, represent only about 3% of all the messages on the Usenet newsgroups, while the Usenet itself represents only 11.5% of the traffic on the Internet.2001 June 24, Philip Elmer-Dewitt, “On a Screen Near You”, in Time, →ISSN, archived from the original on 09 Nov 2023
Forms of USENET
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Origin of USENET
From USENIX, a group of computer programmers using the operating system Unix, from users of Unix. See net (“network”).
Words formed from USENET
Questions about USENET
- What does USENET mean?
- USENET means a world-wide distributed discussion system consisting of newsgroups that are classified hierarchically by subject.
- What is USENET the alternative letter-case form of?
- USENET is the alternative letter-case form of Usenet.
- What part of speech is USENET?
- USENET is a proper noun.
- How do you pronounce USENET?
- USENET is pronounced /ˈjuːz.nɛt/.
Words near USENET in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: USENET (page history and authors); Usenet (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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