subnetwork
- noun
- /ˈsʌbˌnɛtˌwɜrk/
- Specialized
- The company established a subnetwork to improve communication between different departments.
Examples
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Provide more information about the location (regions and subnetworks), scale, and direction of the spatial variation that is most consistently observed across participants.
Academic text (2018) -
Functional brain networks in both children and young adults showed small-world properties (children > 1, young adults > 1), suggesting the presence of subnetworks of densely connected nodes, mostly connected by a short path.
Blog text (4) -
We set up a subnetwork on your phone.
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I mean, you can work on subnetworks and it has been shown to work if you have a subnetwork that has been sufficiently well described.
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I) Provide more information about the location (regions and subnetworks), scale, and direction of the spatial variation that is most consistently observed across participants.
Academic text (2018) -
Barrier-free subway stations in New York City, together with their associated linkages, create three distinct subnetworks in a subterranean layer of that city.
Academic text (1994) -
The different parts (octets) are mainly for human readability, so the different parts (network/subnetwork and host parts) are not easily distinguished from just an IP address; a subnet mask would give you more info about the address and its network in question, but nothing location-wise.
Blog text (21) -
Each office building connected to the main network has its own subnetwork for local devices.
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To enhance security, we created a subnetwork that is isolated from the main corporate network.
Synonyms
A smaller network inside a larger computer network that organizes and protects devices
How Large
- Texting
- Specialized
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word subnetwork is made of sub- meaning 'under' or 'part of', as in subway or submarine, and network meaning a 'web of connections'. So a subnetwork is a smaller part of a larger network, which is why devices inside it can talk to each other more quickly.