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Collins Thesaurus of the English Language – Complete and Unabridged 2nd Edition. 2002 © HarperCollins Publishers 1995, 2002

Synonyms for backbone

a central cohesive source of support and stability

fortitude and determination

the part of a book's cover that encloses the inner side of the book's pages and that faces outward when the book is shelved

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the part of a network that connects other networks together

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The Study Explore the Product Types of Internet Service Providers (ISP) Market: , Installation service & System intergration
It also found that the property manager blocked other ISPs from installing fixed-line internet on units and from marketing their services to interested residents.
Supporters of "net neutrality" also say that an open internet has promoted innovation and prevented ISPs from blocking lawful website, services and apps.
While ARM's first ISP is obviously focused on automotive technology, this may be a start only.
"The ISP business is a bit complex because ISPs require products that have been customised to suit their requirements," he said.
Link the assessment to the ISP. For each resident need or risk identified in the assessment, the ISP describes what will be done, how it will be done, when it will be done and who will do it.
In this section, MP phoneme comparison with the ISP first performed on vowels phoneme, diphthongs and next on consonants phoneme and semi-vowel phoneme.
Let [PHI] = {[A.sub.1], ..., [A.sub.m]} represent a set of peering ISPs. For all [A.sub.i] [member of] [PHI], ISP [A.sub.i] has a total cache capacity C([A.sub.i]) Here we consider the distributed cache of an ISP as a whole, because every node (without generality, regarded as a router) with storage for content caching function belongs to the ISP's network whose cache function is independent of the other peering ISPs.
Beijing, Oct 21, 2011 - (ACN Newswire) - According to the recent research of Isp.org.cn, by September, China's 3G subscribers exceeded 100 million.
and ISP Personal Care have formed an alliance to use sophisticated computer modeling techniques to develop and demonstrate novel skin care approaches based on ISP's Vincience line of biofunctional ingredients.
In April, the Swedish government passed the Intellectual Property Rights Enforcement Directive, a new law that requires ISPs to surrender to the copyright owners the ISP addresses of those who share files.
Internal steam pressure (ISP) increases the rate of heat transfer into the core of the mat, which is critical to mat consolidation, formation of density profile, and overall presscycle time.
Peter Bibby, who lives in Wirral, bought International Safety Products (ISP) in 1995, and has now sold it to two of its managers - John Rogers and Geoff Billington.
But the ISP Association warned customers' bills could rise under the plans.