Networks
A wide variety of systems of interconnected components are called networks. Specific examples include:
transport networks,
roads,
railroads,
shipping routes and
airlines,
pipelines (gas, petroleum, water, sewage),
electric circuits – a network of electrical components.
electricity networks (electric power – generation, transmission and distribution.)
social and/or business networks. (studied in, say, sociology)
criminal networks
telecommunications networks
computer networks, which transfer information between computers. [...]
