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netburp
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n. [IRC] When netlag gets really bad, and delays between servers exceed a
certain threshold, the IRC network effectively becomes partitioned for a
period of time, and large numbers of people seem to be signing off at the
same time and then signing back on again when things get better. An instance
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of this is called a netburp (or, more commonly, netsplit).