netwise

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Etymology

From Middle English nettwyse, nette wise, nette wyse, equivalent to net +‎ -wise.

Adverb

netwise (comparative more netwise, superlative most netwise)

  1. (rare) In the manner or configuration of a net
    • 1859, John Milton, Thomas Keightley, Poems, volume 1, page 126:
      “They have also other ornaments, which they call cawles, made netwise, to the end, as I think, that the cloth of gold, cloth of silver, or else tinsel (for that is the worst), wherewith their heads are covered and attired withal
    • 1883, Transactions of the National Association for the Promotion of Social Science:
      Nature, as Bacon pithily says, joins her work rather 'netwise than chainwise.'
    • 2007, Gi-Joon Nam, Jingsheng Jason Cong, Modern Circuit Placement, page 16:
      From Observation 2.2.1, it is evident that a placement has optimal HPWL if all its nonlocal nets can be partitioned into netwise-disjoint monotone chains with fixed endpoints. Starting from the placement of the real benchmark, sets of nets are identified that can be grouped together into netwise-disjoint monotone chains between well-separated fixed terminals.

Adjective

netwise (comparative more netwise, superlative most netwise)

  1. (rare) Like a net or lattice; netlike, latticelike.
    • 2006, Larry Sabato, Divided States of America, page 212:
      Yet despite its collapse, this long-shot to front-runner campaign stands out as the best example to date of what a netwise operation can achieve.

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