Subnet

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This word is acceptable for play in the US & UK dictionaries that are being used in the following games:

The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. A system of interconnections within a communications system that allows the components to communicate directly with each other.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. The abstraction of a sequence.
  • n. A portion of a network which shares a network address in which each component is identified by a subnet number.
  • v. To break a network into subnets.
  • Word Usage
    "If you have a subnet mask of 255.255.255.0, then your subnet is the first three sets of numbers and the network address is the last number."
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    Words that are found in similar contexts
    router    anycast    unicast    intranet    prefix    IP address    6to4    wildcard    namespace    metric