A computer used on a network system; especially (a standard specification for) a low-cost computer designed chiefly to provide network access, and featuring a graphical interface based on World Wide Web standards; abbreviated NC.
Origin
1980s; earliest use found in Usenet (newsgroups).
Definition of network computer in US English:
network computer
noun
A computer used on a network system; especially (a standard specification for) a low-cost computer designed chiefly to provide network access, and featuring a graphical interface based on World Wide Web standards; abbreviated NC.