networked

1. 1
   adjective

   Joined to other devices or people by a network, or arranged so as to form one.

   Like a group of friends who all stay in touch, so news reaches everyone quickly.

   Modern hospitals rely on networked devices that update patient records in real time.

   Once the sensors were fully networked, the team could monitor the whole building from one screen.

   Similarconnected, linked, interconnected

   Oppositestandalone, isolated

   Note

   A participle that has settled into a true adjective, and the plainest sign is that it grades. Something can be more networked or the most networked, which no single act of networking could be. It sits comfortably before a noun (networked devices, a networked office) and applies to people as readily as to machines.

2. 2
   verb

   Simple past and past participle of network.

   He networked tirelessly during the job fair and left with a dozen new contacts.

   The two offices were networked together so staff could share files instantly.

   Note

   One spelling serves both the past tense and the past participle, and the verb behind it splits by whether it takes an object. The social sense takes none (she networked all evening), so it has no passive. The computing, systems and broadcasting senses do take one, which is why offices, devices or a show can be networked. Once the participle describes a lasting state rather than an action, it has become the adjective.

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