janet

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Definition of janet in English English dictionary

Joint Academic Network

A female given name

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{i} female first name

a diminutive form of Jane

the Joint Academic NETwork, connects and permits communication between UK academic and research centres

Joint Army-Navy Experimental and Testing Board

(Joint Academic Network) (n ) A U K university network

Joint Academic Network UK

Company name used on FAA frequencies for 737 flights ferrying workers from Las Vegas' McCarran Airport to Groom Lake and Tonopah Test Range Six jets normally make 10-12 roundtrips every weekday to Groom and 8-10 every weekday to Tonopah Smaller Kingair prop-driven aircraft take workers to Edwards Air Force Base and other destinations The Janet fleet and terminal were formerly operated by government contractor EG&G, but it is unclear who is operating them now (perhaps Bechtel)

Introduced to connect universities across the world to each other, JANET together with ARPANET were the forerunners of what we know today as The Internet ( top )

The Joint Academic NETwork in the UK The term is used to cover the different physical networks: X 25, JIPS, SuperJANET etc

The academic network in the U K

The joint Academic NETwork of educational establishments in the UK

Joint Academic Network - a private computer network for academic and research activities within the UK It links several hundred academic institutions, including all the Universities, several Colleges of Higher Education and many Research Council establishments JANET is a completely open network in the sense that there are no external formalities to be completed before you can use the network The current use of the service at University College Northampton is free of charge, however there are subscription charges for specific services both internal and external to JANET JANET is connected to the Internet and therefore forms part of the Internet

Joint Academic Network A university network in the U K In recent years, with the advent of higher speed links, renamed to "Super-JANET "

UK academic network, now being superseded by a faster network called SuperJanet

Joint Academic NETwork A network covering most higher education and research establishments, with connections to other country's similar networks and to other internet service company's networks JANET is operated by UKERNA

Joint Academic NETwork A data network used to link schools and universities in the UK

Joint Academic Network Great Britain's national network In true British fashion, JANET addresses work backwards from normal Internet addresses They work from largest domain to the smallest, as in joe@uk ac canterbury cc trumble Luckily, most gateways to JANET perform the necessary translations automatically

Related Terms

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in full Janet Paterson Frame Clutha born Aug. 28, 1924, Dunedin, N.Z. New Zealand novelist, short-story writer, and poet. After an impoverished childhood, she trained as a teacher. Her first book was the story collection The Lagoon (1951). Several times committed to mental institutions, she narrowly escaped undergoing a frontal lobotomy. Her novel Owls Do Cry (1957) incorporated poetry and prose in its investigation of the border between sanity and madness. Her many other novels, several of which draw on Maori legends, include Scented Gardens for the Blind (1963) and The Carpathians (1988). One of her three volumes of memoirs, An Angel at My Table (1984), was filmed by Jane Campion

Janet Reno

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Janet Reno

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Hyphenation

Ja·net

Turkish pronunciation

cänıt

Pronunciation

/ˈʤanət/ /ˈʤænət/

Etymology

() Medieval diminutive of Jane. It survived in Scotland and has been revived in all English-speaking countries since the 19th century.