webwork

A net or web; something structured or interlinked in a weblike manner.

Noun

  1. A net or web; something structured or interlinked in a weblike manner.
    • Most frequently, the three make up the webwork of his literary fabric. - 1946, William Allison Shimer, editor, The American Scholar, volume XV, page 87:
    • Very quickly it becomes evident that these webworks are part of an unaccountably large lair of thousands of spiders. - 1990, Noël Carroll, The Philosophy of Horror: Or, Paradoxes of the Heart, New York: Routledge:
    • In some sense, the entire webwork of space-time would dissolve into myriad unconnected points in the spaceless and timeless Void with no communication between them. - 2002, Sten Odenwald, “Gravity’s Web”, in Patterns in...

Origin

From web + work.

Forms

webworks

Synonyms

meshwork network