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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Zero Definition–noun | 1. | the figure or symbol 0, which in the Arabic notation for numbers stands for the absence of quantity; cipher. | | 2. | the origin of any kind of measurement; line or point from which all divisions of a scale, as a thermometer, are measured in either a positive or a negative direction. | | 3. | a mathematical value intermediate between positive and negative values. | | 5. | the lowest point or degree. | | 6. | Linguistics. the absence of a linguistic element, as a phoneme or morpheme, in a position in which one previously existed or might by analogy be expected to exist, often represented by the symbol 0̷: Inflectional endings were reduced to zero. The alternant of the plural morpheme in “sheep” is zero. | | 7. | Ordnance. a sight setting for both elevation and windage on any particular range causing a projectile to strike the center of the target on a normal day, under favorable light conditions, with no wind blowing. | | 8. | Mathematics. | a. | the identity element of a group in which the operation is addition. | | b. | (of a function, esp. of a function of a complex variable) a point at which a given function, usually a function of a complex variable, has the value zero; a root. | | | 9. | (initial capital letter) a single-engine Japanese fighter plane used in World War II. | –verb (used with object) | 10. | to adjust (an instrument or apparatus) to a zero point or to an arbitrary reading from which all other readings are to be measured. | | 12. | Slang. to kill (a congressional bill, appropriation, etc.): The proposed tax increase has been zeroed for the time being. | –adjective
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| 13. | amounting to zero: a zero score. | | 14. | having no measurable quantity or magnitude; not any: zero economic growth. | | 15. | Linguistics. noting a hypothetical morphological element that is posited as existing by analogy with a regular pattern of inflection or derivation in a language, but is not represented by any sequence of phonological elements: the zero allomorph of “-ed” in “cut”; “Deer” has a zero plural. | | 16. | Meteorology. | a. | (of an atmospheric ceiling) pertaining to or limiting vertical visibility to 50 ft. (15.2 m) or less. | | b. | of, pertaining to, or limiting horizontal visibility to 165 ft. (50.3 m) or less. | | | 18. | being or pertaining to the precise time, as a specific hour or second, when something must or does happen, as the explosion of a nuclear weapon: in an underground shelter at zero second. | —Verb phrases | 19. | zero in, to aim (a rifle, etc.) at the precise center or range of a target. | | 20. | zero in on, | a. | to aim directly at (a target). | | b. | to direct one's attention to; focus on; concentrate on. | | c. | to converge on; close in on. | | |
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Dsl Definition | digital subscriber line: a technology that allows high-speed transmission of text, audio, and video, usually over standard telephone lines; a form of broadband transmission. | |
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