noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
nsfnet
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Figure 3. 5 shows the NSFNET backbone architecture.
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This solicitation set forth a new architecture for providing NSFNET backbone services, including regional networks and network service providers.
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They provide a bridge between local organizations, such as campuses and libraries, and the federally funded NSFNET backbone service.
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Data traffic on the NSFnet backbone alone has increased by more than 25 times in the last 2 years.
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This policy, however, created a need for commercial network providers to bypass the NSFNET backbone as much as possible.
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This statement applies to use of the NSFNET backbone only.
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network
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If the compromised system is on a backbone network , intruders can monitor any transit traffic traversing between nodes on that network.
■ VERB
form
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What I call outline plants form the backbone of your garden.
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The battle of wills between them forms the backbone of the story.
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Frasier's attempts to piece together what really happened form the backbone of the novel.
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Many of the large military enterprises which formed the backbone of the city's economy have suffered serious reductions in income.
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Volunteers such as the receptionist form the backbone of the hospice and volunteer sitters have been helping for five years.
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It forms the backbone of an important result in algebra, known as the Cycle Decomposition Theorem for Modules.
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In later periods, pottery typologies usually form the backbone of the chronological system.
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Directions, along with inhibition, forms the backbone of the Alexander Technique.
provide
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The principal use of this variety is to provide the backbone essential to Champagne blends.
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When a dish is extremely fatty, a jolt of sour acidity provides the backbone to support all that richness.
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The pomeshchiks had become a substantial body and provided the military backbone of the State.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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But they and other progressives had both the brass and backbone to make themselves heard.
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This effectively creates a limited number of entry points into the backbone and simplifies network management.
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This, at least, is some suggestion of a backbone , but the larva does not keep it for very long.