arpanet
/ˈɑɹ.pəˌnɛt/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.02 in modern English
9
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
3
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
name
Initialism of Advanced Research Projects Agency Network, the world's first operational packet-switching network.
name
Alternative spelling of ARPANET.
Example Sentences
- "ARPANET went online in September, 1969, and connected four computers located in California and Utah."
- "The ARPANET was especially important to the Internet project, and was often called the backbone network because it was the central WAN that tied researchers together."
- "It allowed the ARPANET, a single network, to develop into the Internet—an internetwork of hundreds of thousands of networks."
Etymology
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈɑɹ.pəˌnɛt/
Inflected Forms
the ARPANET (canonical)