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cyclades

Definition, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for cyclades.

Editorial note

For example, the cyclades would have been visible from the mainland, as they still are today!

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Quick take

An Aegean island chain in southeast-central Greece, surrounding the main island Delos, further including the islands of Andros, Amorgos, Irakleia, Kea, Mykonos Naxos, Paros, Santorini, Syra, Tinos and others.

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of cyclades gathered in one view.

noun

An Aegean island chain in southeast-central Greece, surrounding the main island Delos, further including the islands of Andros, Amorgos, Irakleia, Kea, Mykonos Naxos, Paros, Santorini, Syra, Tinos and others.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for cyclades.

noun

An Aegean island chain in southeast-central Greece, surrounding the main island Delos, further including the islands of Andros, Amorgos, Irakleia, Kea, Mykonos Naxos, Paros, Santorini, Syra, Tinos and others.

Example sentences

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For example, the cyclades would have been visible from the mainland, as they still are today!

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Notice that Crete is also visible from both the Cyclades and the mainland under ideal conditions.

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Now you have me wondering how the cyclades protocol is different from IP.

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Louis Cyclades Network based on datagram packet switching, however, was not selected as France national communication networks but they had chosen the inferior circuit switching Minitel.

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In the mid 90’s we used Cyclades multi-port serial cards to do this.

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By 1981, Cyclades was forced to shut down.

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Fun facts, the original lead designer of Cyclades Network (Minitel's competitor) is Louis Pouzin using packet switching technology, instead of circuit switching of Minitel, from which TCP/IP was derived [2].

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While Vincent Cerf and Bob Kahn are often credited as the inventors of TCP/IP, the original idea of packet switching and the concept of internetworking were indeed influenced by the work of Louis Pouzin and the French Cyclades Network.

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They said success has many fathers but it's a shame that both Vincent Cerf and Bob Kahn did not credited and even mentioned the original idea of TCP/IP was actually derived from Louis Pouzin of France Cyclades Network in their respective interviews.

Quote examples

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Better as "there is no money in the world that you can pay me and my wife to move to any American suburbs, while the only thing stopping us to go to the Cyclades or somewhere close to Braga (for now) is that she can not find some remote job.

Proper noun examples

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They worked at places as varied as the French government-sponsored computer network Cyclades, England’s National Physical Laboratory, the University of Hawaii and Xerox.

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Cyclades has a rule which makes it almost impossible to eliminate another player, AND it allows a badly damaged player to steal a victory.

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The Minoans are fascinating, I started reading about them sometime this summer just before my summer vacation to the Cyclades.

Frequently asked questions

Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.

How do you use cyclades in a sentence?

For example, the cyclades would have been visible from the mainland, as they still are today!

What does cyclades mean?

An Aegean island chain in southeast-central Greece, surrounding the main island Delos, further including the islands of Andros, Amorgos, Irakleia, Kea, Mykonos Naxos, Paros, Santorini, Syra, Tinos and others.

What part of speech is cyclades?

cyclades is commonly used as noun.