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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A system of interconnections within a communications system that allows the components to communicate directly with each other.

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  • noun topology The abstraction of a sequence.
  • noun networking A portion of a network which shares a network address in which each component is identified by a subnet number.
  • verb networking To break a network into subnets.

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