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backbone
(mass) | backbone
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backbone
(encz) | backbone,hřbet n: Rostislav Svoboda |
backbone
(encz) | backbone,páteř n: |
backbone
(encz) | backbone,pevnost charakteru n: Rostislav Svoboda |
Backbone
(gcide) | Backbone \Back"bone"\ (b[a^]k"b[=o]n`), n. [2d back, n. + bone.]
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1. The column of bones in the back which sustains and gives
firmness to the frame; the spine; the vertebral or spinal
column.
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2. Anything like, or serving the purpose of, a backbone.
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The lofty mountains on the north side compose the
granitic axis, or backbone of the country. --Darwin.
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We have now come to the backbone of our subject.
--Earle.
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3. Firmness; moral principle; steadfastness.
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Shelley's thought never had any backbone. --Shairp.
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To the backbone, through and through; thoroughly; entirely.
"Staunch to the backbone." --Lord Lytton.
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backbone
(wn) | backbone
n 1: a central cohesive source of support and stability; "faith
is his anchor"; "the keystone of campaign reform was the
ban on soft money"; "he is the linchpin of this firm" [syn:
anchor, mainstay, keystone, backbone, linchpin,
lynchpin]
2: fortitude and determination; "he didn't have the guts to try
it" [syn: backbone, grit, guts, moxie, sand,
gumption]
3: the series of vertebrae forming the axis of the skeleton and
protecting the spinal cord; "the fall broke his back" [syn:
spinal column, vertebral column, spine, backbone,
back, rachis]
4: the part of a book's cover that encloses the inner side of
the book's pages and that faces outward when the book is
shelved; "the title and author were printed on the spine of
the book" [syn: spine, backbone]
5: the part of a network that connects other networks together;
"the backbone is the part of a communication network that
carries the heaviest traffic" |
backbone
(foldoc) | backbone network
backbone
In a hierarchical network, a top-level network
that carries network traffic between the mid-level networks
and stub networks that connect to it.
The largest backbone network is the Internet backbone.
(2017-12-02)
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backbone-type frame
(encz) | backbone-type frame,centrální nosný rám [tech.] Rostislav Svoboda |
Backbone
(gcide) | Backbone \Back"bone"\ (b[a^]k"b[=o]n`), n. [2d back, n. + bone.]
[1913 Webster]
1. The column of bones in the back which sustains and gives
firmness to the frame; the spine; the vertebral or spinal
column.
[1913 Webster]
2. Anything like, or serving the purpose of, a backbone.
[1913 Webster]
The lofty mountains on the north side compose the
granitic axis, or backbone of the country. --Darwin.
[1913 Webster]
We have now come to the backbone of our subject.
--Earle.
[1913 Webster]
3. Firmness; moral principle; steadfastness.
[1913 Webster]
Shelley's thought never had any backbone. --Shairp.
[1913 Webster]
To the backbone, through and through; thoroughly; entirely.
"Staunch to the backbone." --Lord Lytton.
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Backboned
(gcide) | Backboned \Back"boned"\, a.
Vertebrate.
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To the backbone
(gcide) | Backbone \Back"bone"\ (b[a^]k"b[=o]n`), n. [2d back, n. + bone.]
[1913 Webster]
1. The column of bones in the back which sustains and gives
firmness to the frame; the spine; the vertebral or spinal
column.
[1913 Webster]
2. Anything like, or serving the purpose of, a backbone.
[1913 Webster]
The lofty mountains on the north side compose the
granitic axis, or backbone of the country. --Darwin.
[1913 Webster]
We have now come to the backbone of our subject.
--Earle.
[1913 Webster]
3. Firmness; moral principle; steadfastness.
[1913 Webster]
Shelley's thought never had any backbone. --Shairp.
[1913 Webster]
To the backbone, through and through; thoroughly; entirely.
"Staunch to the backbone." --Lord Lytton.
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backbone cabal
(foldoc) | backbone cabal
A group of large-site administrators who pushed
through the Great Renaming and reined in the chaos of
Usenet during most of the 1980s. The cabal mailing list
disbanded in late 1988 after a bitter internal cat-fight.
[Jargon File]
(1994-11-28)
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backbone network
(foldoc) | backbone network
backbone
In a hierarchical network, a top-level network
that carries network traffic between the mid-level networks
and stub networks that connect to it.
The largest backbone network is the Internet backbone.
(2017-12-02)
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backbone site
(foldoc) | backbone site
A key Usenet, electronic mail and/or
Internet site that processed a large amount of third-party
traffic, especially home sites of any of the regional
coordinators for the Usenet maps. Notable backbone sites as
of early 1993 included uunet and the mail machines at
Rutgers University, UC Berkeley, DEC's Western Research
Laboratories, Ohio State University and the {University of
Texas}.
Compare rib site, leaf site.
[Jargon File]
(1994-11-28)
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internet backbone
(foldoc) | Internet backbone
High-speed networks that carry
Internet traffic.
These communications networks are provided by companies
such as AT&T, GTE, IBM, MCI, Netcom, Sprint,
UUNET and consist of high-speed links in the T1, T3,
OC1 and OC3 ranges. The backbones carry Internet
traffic around the world and meet at Network Access Points
(NAPs).
Internet Service Providers (ISPs) connect either directly to
a backbone, or they connect to a larger ISP with a connection
to a backbone.
The topology of the "backbone" and its interconnections may
once have resembled a spine with ribs connected along its
length but is now almost certainly more like a fishing net
wrapped around the world with many circular paths.
[Map?]
(1998-07-02)
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multicast backbone
(foldoc) | multicast backbone
(MBONE) A virtual network on top of the Internet which
supports routing of IP multicast packets, intended for
multimedia transmission. MBONE gives public access {desktop
video} communications. The quality is poor with only 3-5
frames per second instead of the 30 frames per second of
commercial television. Its advantage is that it avoids all
telecommunications costs normally associated with
teleconferencing. An interesting innovation is the use of
MBONE for audio communications and an electronic "whiteboard"
where the computer screen becomes a shared workspace where two
physically remote parties can draw on and edit shared
documents in real-time.
(1994-10-27)
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backbone cabal
(jargon) | backbone cabal
n.
A group of large-site administrators who pushed through the {Great Renaming
} and reined in the chaos of Usenet during most of the 1980s. During most
of its lifetime, the Cabal (as it was sometimes capitalized) steadfastly
denied its own existence; it was almost obligatory for anyone privy to
their secrets to respond “There is no Cabal” whenever the existence or
activities of the group were speculated on in public.
The result of this policy was an attractive aura of mystery. Even a decade
after the cabal mailing list disbanded in late 1988 following a bitter
internal catfight, many people believed (or claimed to believe) that it had
not actually disbanded but only gone deeper underground with its power
intact.
This belief became a model for various paranoid theories about various
Cabals with dark nefarious objectives beginning with taking over the Usenet
or Internet. These paranoias were later satirized in ways that took on a
life of their own. See Eric Conspiracy for one example. Part of the
background for this kind of humor is that many hackers cultivate a fondness
for conspiracy theory considered as a kind of surrealist art; see the
bibliography entry on Illuminatus! for the novel that launched this trend.
See NANA for the subsequent history of “the Cabal”.
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backbone site
(jargon) | backbone site
n.,obs.
Formerly, a key Usenet and email site, one that processes a large amount of
third-party traffic, especially if it is the home site of any of the
regional coordinators for the Usenet maps. Notable backbone sites as of
early 1993, when this sense of the term was beginning to pass out of
general use due to wide availability of cheap Internet connections,
included uunet and the mail machines at Rutgers University, UC Berkeley, {
DEC}'s Western Research Laboratories, Ohio State University, and the
University of Texas. Compare leaf site.
[2001 update: This term has passed into history. The UUCP network world
that gave it meaning is gone; everyone is on the Internet now and network
traffic is distributed in very different patterns. Today one might see
references to a “backbone router” instead —ESR]
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