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Of a generator or power plant: connected to the grid. / Of a computer: actively connected to the Internet or to some other communications service. / Available over, or delivered from, the Internet.

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online

Adjective

slang

Of a generator or power plant: connected to the grid. / Of a computer: actively connected to the Internet or to some other communications service. / Available over, or delivered from, the Internet.

Japanese Meaning

発電機や発電所が電力網に接続されている状態 / コンピュータがインターネットや他の通信サービスに接続されている状態 / インターネット上で利用可能、またはインターネット経由で提供される状態

What is this buttons?

After the maintenance check, the power plant was online and supplying electricity to the regional grid.

Google Translation / DeepL Translation

点検後、その発電所は系統に接続され、地域に電力を供給していました。

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Sense（1）

Of a generator or power plant: connected to the grid.

Sense（2）

Of a computer: actively connected to the Internet or to some other communications service.

Is this modem online?

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Sense（3）

Available over, or delivered from, the Internet.

In America alone, people spent $170 billion on “direct marketing”—junk mail of both the physical and electronic varieties—last year. Yet of those who received unsolicited adverts through the post, only 3% bought anything as a result. If the bumf arrived electronically, the take-up rate was 0.1%. And for online adverts the “conversion” into sales was a minuscule 0.01%.

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