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say it: EE-thur-net
ethernet is a noun meaning "a type of network technology for local area networks; coaxial cable carries radio frequency signals between computers at a rate of 10 megabits per second". It is pronounced /ˈiθɚˌnɛt/ — EE-thur-net. It carries one recorded sense.
a type of network technology for local area networks; coaxial cable carries radio frequency signals between computers at a rate of 10 megabits per second
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for ethernet come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.