netwise
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
10
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
adv
In the manner or configuration of a net
adj
Like a net or lattice; netlike, latticelike.
Example Sentences
- "“They have also other ornaments, which they call cawles, made netwise, to the end, as I think, that the cloth of gold, cloth of silver, or else tinsel (for that is the worst), wherewith their heads are covered and attired withal […]”"
- "Nature, as Bacon pithily says, joins her work rather 'netwise than chainwise.'"
- "From Observation 2.2.1, it is evident that a placement has optimal HPWL if all its nonlocal nets can be partitioned into netwise-disjoint monotone chains with fixed endpoints. […] Starting from the placement of the real benchmark, sets of nets are identified that can be grouped together into netwise-disjoint monotone chains between well-separated fixed terminals."
- "Yet despite its collapse, this long-shot to front-runner campaign stands out as the best example to date of what a netwise operation can achieve."
Etymology
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: nettwyse
Inflected Forms
more netwise (comparative)
most netwise (superlative)
net-wise (alternative)