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net

Of a particular figure or price, calculated after the deduction of specific items such as commission, discounts, interest, and taxes. The opposite is gross.

net

In mathematics, a plan which can be used to make a model of a solid.

net

In the Internet's domain name system (DNS), one of the top-level domains, along with org, edu, com, gov, and mil. However, the use of the name has not been controlled and a name.net address does not necessarily identify the user as someone who works for a company involved in Internet networking.



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Numerous studies such as What Work Requires of Schools (Department of Labor, 1991), the Falling through the Net series (Department of Commerce, 1995, 1998, 1999, 2000), Building a Workforce for the Information Economy (National Academy, 2001), and "Preparing Future Technology Users" (Granger & Lippert, 1998) posit that computer skills are increasingly required to enter the workforce.
Even as computers become more central to our society, minorities are falling through the Net.
Irving initiated and was the principal author of the landmark federal study, Falling Through the Net, which tracked access to telecommunications and information technologies across racial, economic, and geographic lines.
 
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