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- noun Plural form of
backbone .
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Examples
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The new system likely will focus service along several "backbones" -- the busways and Light Rail Transit routes -- with smaller "feeder" routes taking passengers to those corridors, she said.
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It says nothing for aggregate pipes for data center access and backbones, which is increasing on a seperate timescale.
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If the lands of Mars are framed as are those of our own earth, there should be ridges of mountains constituting what we may term the backbones of the continent.
Outlines of the Earth's History A Popular Study in Physiography Nathaniel Southgate Shaler 1873
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Mr. Doda said many of his competitors used overloaded servers and overburdened lines linking cities and continents - called backbones - that skewed measurements.
NYT > Home Page 2010
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Mr. Doda said many of his competitors used overloaded servers and overburdened lines linking cities and continents - called backbones - that skewed measurements.
NYT > Home Page 2010
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The complexity is not only in the Internet infrastructure of routers and backbones which is the way the complexity used to be ten years ago.
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Recent deals: 1997: After a $1.2 billion stock swap with H&R Block and an asset shuffle with American Online, WorldCom ends up with the Internet "backbones" of both AOL and CompuServe1996: Worldcom pays $14 billions for MFS Communications and gets its giant Internet provider UUNET Technologies. 1995: $2.5 billion merger with Williams Telecommunications Group brings an 11,000-mile fiber-optic cable network. 1993: A Three-way $1.2 billion merger with Metromedia and the Resurgens Communications Group makes WorldCom a major league long-distance player.
They Might Be Giants 2008
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"backbones", wireless and satellite services to give Australians faster internet.
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What that means is that mobile operators should expect more network traffic and hence bigger stress on their respective backbones.
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And what prevents the cellphone companies to string fiber from each of their towers to the nearest Internet backbones.
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