单词 | information superhighway |
释义 | information superhighway[ in-fer-mey-shuhn soo-per-hahy-wey ] / ˌɪn fərˈmeɪ ʃən ˈsu pərˌhaɪ weɪ / SEE SYNONYMS FOR information superhighway ON THESAURUS.COM a large-scale communications network providing a variety of often interactive services, as text databases, email, and audio and video materials, accessed through computers, television sets, etc. Also called da·ta high·way. Origin of information superhighwayFirst recorded in 1975–80 historical usage of information superhighwaySee internet. Words nearby information superhighwayinformation processing, information question, information retrieval, information science, information security, information superhighway, information system, information technology, information theory, information warfare, informative Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 British Dictionary definitions for information superhighwayinformation superhighway nounthe concept of a worldwide network of computers capable of transferring all types of digital information at high speed another name for the internet Informal name: information highway Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012 Cultural definitions for information superhighwayinformation superhighway A term that describes all of the infrastructure, including cable, satellites, and assorted hardware, that allows information to be transferred at great speed over large distances to all people. notes for information superhighwayThe term implies an analogy between the construction of an information infrastructure in the Internet age with the construction of the interstate highway system constructed in the last half of the twentieth century. The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy, Third Edition Copyright © 2005 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved. |
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