Wort des Tages
9 April 2026
cloud
nounElektrotechnik
A telecom network (from their representation in engineering drawings).
Warum dieses Wort
The shape came off the drawing board: telecom engineers sketched a puffy outline where the network went, because what happened inside it belonged to the carrier, not the drawing. The symbol outlived the paper.
In use
Our end of the link is fine up to the demarc; after that it goes into the cloud and we're waiting on the carrier to trace it.
Written by our editors to show how the term is used, not a recorded quotation.