netwise

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1. rareIn the manner or configuration of a net

   Nature, as Bacon pithily says, joins her work rather 'netwise than chainwise.'

   1883, Transactions of the National Association for the Promotion of Social Science

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   “They have also other ornaments, which they call cawles, made netwise, to the end, as I think, that the cloth of gold, cloth of silver, or else tinsel (for that is the worst), wherewith their heads are covered and attired withal […]”

   1859, John Milton, Thomas Keightley, Poems, volume 1, page 126

   From Observation 2.2.1, it is evident that a placement has optimal HPWL if all its nonlocal nets can be partitioned into netwise-disjoint monotone chains with fixed endpoints. […] Starting from the placement of the real benchmark, sets of nets are identified that can be grouped together into netwise-disjoint monotone chains between well-separated fixed terminals.

   2007, Gi-Joon Nam, Jingsheng Jason Cong, Modern Circuit Placement, page 16

comparative more netwise · superlative most netwise · alternative net-wise

1. rareLike a net or lattice; netlike, latticelike.

   Yet despite its collapse, this long-shot to front-runner campaign stands out as the best example to date of what a netwise operation can achieve.

   2006, Larry Sabato, Divided States of America, page 212