Dictionary

webwork en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• /ˈwɛbˌwɜːk/ (Received-Pronunciation)
• /ˈwɛbˌwɝk/ (General-American)

Etymology

From web + work.

Meanings

1. (uncountable, usually) A net or web; something structured or interlinked in a weblike manner.
   • 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 the Void: Why Nothing Is Important, 1st edition, Westview Press, →ISBN, page 111:
   • Delicate fingers of frost reached up from the floor and extended down from the ceiling; the bottles were covered with a lacy webwork so fine that it looked like cobwebs. 2003, Ben Jones, chapter XIII, in The Rope Eater, Doubleday, →ISBN, page 185:
   • 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:
   • Most frequently, the three make up the webwork of his literary fabric. 1946, William Allison Shimer, editor, The American Scholar, volume XV, page 87:
   • If museums are to assist their users to explore and develop what they know, they must invite the avalanche of questions and create the webwork of connections that configure a learning life. 2003, David Carr, “Museums, Educative: An Encyclopedia Entry”, in The Promise of Cultural Institutions, Rowman Altamira, →ISBN, page 35:

Forms

Synonyms

network · meshwork