telnet

English

Alternative forms

• Telnet, TELNET

Etymology

Short for telecommunication network.

Pronunciation

• Audio (UK):

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Noun

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TELNET

Wikipedia

telnet (countable and uncountable, plural telnets)

1. (computing, uncountable) A network protocol that enables one computer to communicate with another via a local area network or the Internet.
2. (computing, countable) The program that acts as the client for such communication.

Verb

telnet (third-person singular simple present telnets, present participle telnetting or telneting, simple past and past participle telnetted or telneted)

1. (computing, intransitive) To use such a program to make such a connection.
   • 2014 February 8, Király, “Newsreaders”, in comp.sys.mac.comm‎ (Usenet), archived from the original on 8 December 2025:

     I've been running tin with nano in Terminal in my Mac since 2003, and before then, by telnetting in to my university's server, which I first started doing as a first year undergrad in September 1993.

Anagrams

• letten, nettle