internetwork

[ in-ter-net-wurk ]

noun

, Digital Technology.

1. two or more computer networks connected by routers, bridges, etc.:

   The internet is the largest internetwork.

Word History and Origins

Origin of internetwork¹

First recorded in 1890–95; inter- ( def ) + network ( def ), loan translation of German Zwischennetz originally for an earlier botanical sense “interconnected network”

Example Sentences

In the first draft of the law review article in which he introduced the term, he called it Internetwork neutrality, which was chopped down twice — to network neutrality, then to net neutrality.

From New York Times

In the first draft of the law review article in which he introduced the term, he called it Internetwork neutrality, which was chopped down twice —to network neutrality, then to net neutrality.

From New York Times

By the mid-nineteen-seventies, researchers across the country had developed a network of networks: an internetwork, or, later, an “internet.”

From The New Yorker

That model helped provide job security for many third-party engineers who are known as CCIEs, for Cisco Certified Internetwork Experts.

From Wall Street Journal

Most importantly from the point of view of this award, members participated in an international working group whose job was to define the function of inter-network gateways and the development of the Internetwork Protocol that led directly to the creation of the internet, co-authoring one of the seminal publications on this subject.

From The Guardian