Dictionary

thinnet en · NOUN · etymology 1

Etymology

From thin + net.

Meanings

1. (countable, uncountable) 10BASE2, a form of Ethernet using a thin coaxial cable
   • The most common type of cable used for small networks is thin coaxial cable, usually called thinnet. 1996, Doug Lowe, Networking for Dummies, page 115:

Forms

Relateds

thicknet

thinnet en · NOUN · etymology 2

Meanings

1. (rare) A sparse thicket.
   • We are in a wood, walking in single file through thinnets of birch with a pale sunlight falling. 1999, Indra Sinha, The Cybergypsies: A True Tale of Lust, War, and Betrayal on the Electronic Frontier:
   • There were assorted trees growing in it, some forming thickets and thinnets, and a number of tents and ramshackle small buildings. 2007, Piers Anthony, Stork Naked, page 278:
   • Most of my bounds are stone walls, lichen gray or mossy green, they lie not by open fields but in spruce thickets, in maple thinnets and pine groves, across brooks and steep hillsides. 1994, Ronald Jager, Last House on the Road: Excursions Into a Rural Past, page 164:

Forms