webwork

plural webworks

1. uncountableusuallyA 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

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   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 the Void: Why Nothing Is Important, 1st edition, Westview Press, →ISBN, page 111

   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

   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

   Synonyms: meshwork, network