• n.
    ⦿the part of a network that connects other networks together
    lexical concept
  • the backbone is the part of a communication network that carries the heaviest traffic

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Lexical context

wn:part of speechnoun
ontolex:lexicalized senseenl:backbone
wn:interlingual indexili:i50327

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skos:is in schemeOpen English WordNet
rdfs:labelbackbone