NET or Net may refer to:
- Net (device), fibers woven in a grid-like structure
- Net (textile), any textile in which the warp and weft yarns are looped or knotted at their intersections
- Brooklyn Nets, a basketball team
- The Net (1995 film), a film starring Sandra Bullock
- Cricket nets a safe netted environment for practicing cricket
- Fishing net, a net used for fishing
In computing and communication:
- Computer network, collection of computers and devices
- Telecommunications network, collections of terminals, links, and nodes to facilitate telecommunication
- Internet, global system of interconnected computer networks
- Network: Computation In Neural Systems, scientific journal
- An electronic network connection in a netlist, which shows the connectivity of an electronic design
In business and finance as an antonym of gross:
- Net (economics), the amount remaining after deductions
- Net worth, total assets minus total liabilities
- Net metering, electricity policy
- Net 30, form of trade credit
- Net profit, gross profit minus overhead and interest
- Net weight, weight of a product, not counting packaging
- Net pay, salary after deductions
NET as an acronym may refer to:
In broadcast and media:
- National Educational Television, predecessor of PBS in the United States
- Nebraska Educational Telecommunications, Nebraska
- New Evangelization Television, New York
- National Empowerment Television, a defunct politically conservative cable network from the 1990s, also called America's Voice
- NET S.A., Cable television operator in Latin America
- New Hellenic Television, Greece
- Never Ending Tour, musician Bob Dylan's tour since 1988
- North East Tonight (or North East Today), a British regional news programme
- NET Television (Malta), a Maltese television station
- Nihon Educational Television, the former name of TV Asahi, Japan
In science and psychology:
- Neuroendocrine tumor, cancers of the interface between the endocrine and nervous system
- N-Ethyltryptamine, psychedelic drug
- Neutrophil Extracellular Traps, extracellular fibers
- Neuro Electric Therapy, treatment for anxiety
- Neuro Emotional Technique, holistic medicine
- Norepinephrine transporter, neurotransmitter transporter
- Non-equilibrium thermodynamics, branch of study
- Net flux, proportional amount to the concentration difference across a membrane, the surface area of the membrane, and the membrane permeability constant
In mathematics:
- Net (mathematics), a generalization of a sequence similar to a filter
- Net (polyhedron), an arrangement of polygons that can be folded up to form a polyhedron
- ε-nets in probability theory, computational geometry, and metric spaces
- Net, a linear system of divisors of dimension 2
- Local net of operator algebras in quantum field theory
In other uses:
- National Education Trust, English non-profit
- National Eligibility Test, Indian entrance examination
- New Earth Time, alternative naming system for time of day
- New English Translation of the Bible
- Nottingham Express Transit, British tramway
- Noise-equivalent target, detection system
- NET Act, No Electronic Theft Act in the United States
.net or .NET may refer to:
- .net, an Internet top-level domain
- .net (magazine), British monthly periodical
- .NET Framework, software framework for Microsoft Windows
- .NET Messenger Service, an old name for Microsoft Messenger service
- .NET Passport, an old name for Microsoft account
Famous quotes containing the word net:
“A mans whole life is taxed for the least thing well done. It is its net result.”
—Henry David Thoreau (18171862)
“Heres a fish hangs in the net like a poor mans right in the law; twill hardly come out.”
—William Shakespeare (15641616)
“Hard times accounted in large part for the fact that the exposition was a financial disappointment in its first year, but Sally Rand and her fan dancers accomplished what applied science had failed to do, and the exposition closed in 1934 with a net profit, which was donated to participating cultural institutions, excluding Sally Rand.”
—For the State of Illinois, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)