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Fabric (textile)

Woven, knitted, or felted cloth used to tailor clothing, drapes, and household upholstery.

First in use: ancient / pre-modern
Duplicate · right

Switched fabric

An interconnected switching topology linking server racks, storage arrays, and network nodes as a unified grid.

First in use: the 1990s

Fabric / Fabric (textile) / Switched fabric

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Cloth vs. data-center networks.

Which meaning of Fabric is the original, and which one is the duplicate riding on its name? Fabric (textile) came first (ancient / pre-modern). Switched fabric arrived in the 1990s. The data below shows which one owns the word now.

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Original · ancient / pre-modern

Fabric (textile)

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