Subnet


noun, Mathematics.
1.
the abstraction, in topology, of a subsequence.

A portion of a network, which may be a physically independent network segment, which shares a network address with other portions of the network and is distinguished by a subnet number. A subnet is to a network what a network is to an internet.

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