What is net?

  • (noun): The excess of revenues over outlays in a given period of time (including depreciation and other non-cash expenses).
    Synonyms: net income, net profit, lucre, profit, profits, earnings
    See also — Additional definitions below

Some articles on net:

Baryogenesis Within The Standard Model
... The Standard Model can incorporate baryogenesis, though the amount of net baryons (and leptons) thus created may not be sufficient to account for the present baryon asymmetry this issue has not yet been ... Thus there is a net baryonic flux through the domain wall ... which are abundant in the unbroken phase, the net anti-baryonic content of the unbroken phase is wiped off ...

More definitions of "net":

  • (noun): A trap made of netting to catch fish or birds or insects.
  • (verb): Yield as a net profit.
    Synonyms: clear
  • (adj): Remaining after all deductions.
    Example: "Net profit"
    Synonyms: nett
  • (noun): A goal lined with netting (as in soccer or hockey).
  • (verb): Catch with a net.
    Example: "Net a fish"
    Synonyms: nett
  • (noun): Game equipment consisting of a strip of netting dividing the playing area in tennis or badminton.
  • (noun): A computer network consisting of a worldwide network of computer networks that use the TCP/IP network protocols to facilitate data transmission and exchange.
    Synonyms: Internet, cyberspace
  • (verb): Construct or form a web, as if by weaving.
    Synonyms: web
  • (adj): Conclusive in a process or progression.
    Example: "The net result"
    Synonyms: final, last

Famous quotes containing the word net:

    “The violent illiteracies of the graffiti, the clenched silence of the adolescent, the nonsense cries from the stage-happening, are resolutely strategic. The insurgent and the freak-out have broken off discourse with a cultural system which they despise as a cruel, antiquated fraud. They will not bandy words with it. Accept, even momentarily, the conventions of literate linguistic exchange, and you are caught in the net of the old values, of the grammars that can condescend or enslave.”
    —George Steiner (b. 1929)

    “There is a potential 4-6 percentage point net gain for the President [George Bush] by replacing Dan Quayle on the ticket with someone of neutral stature.”
    —Mary Matalin, U.S. Republican political advisor, author, and James Carville b. 1946, U.S. Democratic political advisor, author. All’s Fair: Love, War, and Running for President, p. 205, Random House (1994)

    “A man’s whole life is taxed for the least thing well done. It is its net result.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)