internetted

1. 1
   adjective

   Connected to the Internet, or able to access it.

   She refused to buy a car that wasn't internetted with live traffic updates.

   Once the cabin became internetted, remote work there was finally possible.

   Similarconnected, online, wired

   Oppositeoffline, unconnected, disconnected

   Note

   The everyday descendant of the networking term usually appears in scare quotes, a sign that writers still feel it as a coinage. Paul Vallas promised classrooms "fully 'Internetted'" in 2001, capitalizing it after the Internet itself. It is classed as not comparable, but it bends in practice: Thurlow, Lengel and Tomic call the United States one of the "most heavily 'internetted'" countries.

2. 2
   adjective

   Entwined or linked together to form a network; interconnected.

   The deeply internetted alliances of the period dragged distant nations into the same war.

   Coral reefs support an internetted web of species that depend on one another.

   Similarinterwoven

   Oppositeunconnected, isolated, separate

   Note

   A mid-nineteenth-century word that has nothing to do with computers. It is inter- ("among, between") plus netted, and it described hair, leaves and purses long before any network carried data. Elizabeth Stone's Mr. Dalton's Legatee (1850) corrects "interwoven" to "internetted" mid-sentence, as if weaving were too orderly for a mesh. Anatomy used it too: Youmans in 1857 calls the choroid's vessels "closely internetted."

3. 3
   adjective

   Connected into a computer network so devices can exchange data.

   The factory's sensors are fully internetted, feeding readings to a central server.

   Engineers kept the control systems internetted on an isolated subnet.

   Similarnetworked, connected, interconnected, linked

   Oppositeoffline, standalone, unconnected

   Note

   Defense and networking writing of the 1980s and 1990s used it as a term of art, with ARPANET as the model: computers joined so that a user at one terminal can reach many others. In 1996 testimony defining cyberspace, Robert H. Anderson called "internetted" the key word, because it names the property that lets one system be reached from another. In this technical use it is not comparable: a machine is internetted or it is not.

4. 4
   verb

   Simple past and past participle of internet.

   Engineers had internetted the new building before the staff moved in.

   The city internetted its traffic signals to a single control center.

   Note

   One spelling serves verbs of very different ages. The older one is rare and archaic: to link things into a mesh, kin to the "entwined" adjective. The newer ones are technical and informal. The technical verb means connecting a device to a network. The informal one means searching the internet, and it is intransitive, so you say someone internetted for an answer, not that they internetted it.

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