| 释义 |
ˈnetworking, vbl. n. (Formerly at network v.)
[f. network v. + -ing1.]
1. a. The action or process of broadcasting on a radio or television network.
1940Porterfield & Reynolds We present Television iv. 149 Television, now that a practicable means of networking has been developed, has been supplied with the final implement necessary for the creation of what will eventually be a nation-wide service. 1956Newsweek 7 May 59 The television networking business is a complicated and delicate business. 1968Listener 8 Aug. 187/1 The new companies..operate within a networking system still dominated by Granada, ATV and Thames. 1970New Statesman 4 Sept. 281/3 A small [television] company can rely on getting full networking for just about four programmes a year. 1971Writing for B.B.C. 65 Plays intended for networking..should not be so Scottish that they cannot be readily understood by listeners in the other parts of the British Isles. 1972Computers & Humanities vii. 96 The potential contribution of computer networking to research and education. 1978New Scientist 7 Sept. 669 Networking also means that particular jobs can be run on special machines rather than many machines handling all types of jobs which is inefficient. 1985Personal Computer World Feb. 192/2 Local area networking involves the transmission of data..between participating nodes on the network. 1985Acorn User Feb. 21/3 Meadnet is a low-cost networking system which allows up to 16 BBC micros to share disc drives and printer.
b. The sharing and exchanging of information within a network of communication; also, in Computing, the action or process of linking a number of computers together, esp. within one establishment, in order to share and utilize their resources efficiently; the use of computer networks.
1967Educom Dec. 8/2 The immediate project involves the networking of medical information. 1972Datamation Apr. 42/1 Unless the problems of [resource] sharing are properly managed, computer networking will fail. 1977Business Week 19 Dec. 64 m/1 The idea of networking—linking work stations together so that they function separately but have access to the same information base—is being hotly debated. 1986E. L. Scace in T. C. Bartee Digital Communications iii. 130 User information is..what networking is all about. 1988Cooper & Redlinger Making Spies vi. 300 These dangers can only be expected to increase as information management becomes more and more centralized and networking the order of the day.
2. The action or process of making use of a network (sense 2 h) for the exchange of information, etc., or for professional or other advantage (see sense 2 of the vb.).
1976C. L. Attneave in P. J. Guerin Family Therapy xii. 227 ‘Network’ is a noun referring to entire social or family network as the unit of intervention... The techniques..described by Speck and Attneave..are those of assembling the social network, which they prefer to call a process of retribalization rather than ‘networking’. 1979Working Woman Oct. 4/2 The way networking works in real life for both men and women goes something like this: when you need help, someone you have known over a period of time, for whom you have done services and favors of friendship, takes your need as the opportunity to return them. 1984M. Piercy Fly away Home ix. 125 She had filled the house with books about being a successful woman executive, books about networking. 1985Toronto Life Sept. 63/1 The success of a film festival depends on networking—to get the right films it helps to know the right people. 1987Catholic Leader (Brisbane) 3 May 3/1 One of the major benefits from this kind of networking is mutual support by care-givers and the ease of exchange of ideas among people in overlapping fields of care. |