thinnet

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English

Etymology 1

From thin +‎ net.

Noun

thinnet (countable and uncountable, plural thinnets)

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

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Etymology 2

Noun

thinnet (plural thinnets)

  1. (rare) A sparse thicket.
    • 1994, Ronald Jager, Last House on the Road: Excursions Into a Rural Past, page 164:
      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.
    • 1999, Indra Sinha, The Cybergypsies: A True Tale of Lust, War, and Betrayal on the Electronic Frontier:
      We are in a wood, walking in single file through thinnets of birch with a pale sunlight falling.
    • 2007, Piers Anthony, Stork Naked, page 278:
      There were assorted trees growing in it, some forming thickets and thinnets, and a number of tents and ramshackle small buildings.
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