Net Definition–noun | 1. | a bag or other contrivance of strong thread or cord worked into an open, meshed fabric, for catching fish, birds, or other animals: a butterfly net. | | 2. | a piece of meshed fabric designed to serve a specific purpose, as to divide a court in racket games or protect against insects: a tennis net; a mosquito net. | | 3. | anything serving to catch or ensnare: a police net to trap the bank robber. | | 4. | a lacelike fabric with a uniform mesh of cotton, silk, rayon, nylon, etc., often forming the foundation of any of various laces. | | 5. | (in tennis, badminton, etc.) a ball that hits the net. | | 6. | Often, nets. the goal in hockey or lacrosse. | | 7. | any network or reticulated system of filaments, lines, veins, or the like. | | 8. | any network containing computers and telecommunications equipment. | | 9. | the Net, the Internet. | | 10. | Mathematics. the abstraction, in topology, of a sequence; a map from a directed set to a given space. | | 11. | (initial capital letter ) Astronomy. the constellation Reticulum. | | 12. | Informal. a radio or television network. | –verb (used with object) | 13. | to cover, screen, or enclose with a net or netting: netting the bed to keep out mosquitoes. | | 14. | to take with a net: to net fish. | | 15. | to set or use nets in (a river, stream, etc.), as for catching fish. | | 16. | to catch or ensnare: to net a dangerous criminal. | | 17. | (in tennis, badminton, etc.) to hit (the ball) into the net. | |
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Serial Definition–noun | 1. | anything published, broadcast, etc., in short installments at regular intervals, as a novel appearing in successive issues of a magazine. | | 2. | Library Science. a publication in any medium issued in successive parts bearing numerical or chronological designation and intended to be continued indefinitely. | –adjective | 3. | published in installments or successive parts: a serial story. | | 4. | pertaining to such publication. | | 5. | of, pertaining to, consisting of, or occurring in a series rather than simultaneously: Some societies condemn both polygamy and serial marriages. | | 6. | effecting or producing a series; sequential: The police think a serial killer is responsible for five homicides in this city last month. | | 7. | Computers. | a. | of or pertaining to the apparent or actual performance of data-processing operations one at a time (distinguished from parallel ). | | b. | of or pertaining to the transmission or processing of each part of a whole in sequence, as each bit of a byte or each byte of a computer word (distinguished from parallel ). | | | 8. | Music. of, pertaining to, or composed in serial technique. | |
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