WordNet
n. (computer science) a network of computers
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A computer network or data network is a telecommunications network which allows computers to exchange data. In computer networks, networked computing devices exchange data with each other using a data link. The connections between nodes are established using either cable media or wireless media. The best-known computer network is the Internet.
Network computer devices that originate, route and terminate the data are called network nodes. Nodes can include hosts such as personal computers, phones, servers as well as networking hardware. Two such devices can be said to be networked together when one device is able to exchange information with the other device, whether or not they have a direct connection to each other.
Computer networks differ in the transmission medium used to carry their signals, the communications protocols to organize network traffic, the network's size, topology and organizational intent.
Computer networks support an enormous number of applications and services such as access to the World Wide Web, digital video, digital audio, shared use of application and storage servers, printers, and fax machines, and use of email and instant messaging applications as well as many others. In most cases, application-specific communications protocols are layered (i.e. carried as payload) over other more general communications protocols.
Usage examples of "computer network".
Out there, to the big computers, we are simply a part of the computer network, a component, requesting a localized adjustment!
Also, by bribing someone to plant bugs in the keyboards or other vulnerable parts of a computer network, NSA can intercept messages before cryptographic software has a chance to scramble them.
Originally, a computer network for the exchange of (restricted and open) research results among scientists and academics in participating institutions - it was supposed to provide instant publishing, instant access, and instant gratification.
From what he'd learned on the Race's computer network, these brawls were normal for hatchlings of their age.
Even though he didn't learn much, he dutifully skittered through it every day, so the Race could see how glad he was to have even that limited access to their computer network.
This was a well-known virus that let a remote user take over someone else's computer, usually when they're both on the same computer network - for instance two employees working for the same company.
Yet it seemed obvious that everything--the surfaces, shapes, and perhaps sounds--represented the hardware, software, and data of the GeneDyne computer network.