What is "latticeworks"

Usage examples of "latticeworks".

Each such polyhedron could have common surfaces with other polyhedrons, forming infinite latticeworks based on the pentagonal unit.

It's possible for humans, given the right methods, to translate themselves into sentient latticeworks of pure energy that will be more or less permanent.

And his spirit appeared to wander among bewildering surroundings where he sensed, rather than saw, the orderly arrangement of contented forces humming indifferently in their inscrutable latticeworks of design and purpose.

But I will say that on the morning I met with Cattanay, I—who was the soul of the practical man, without a visionary bone in my body—felt as though I were being whirled away into the painting, up through geometries of light, latticeworks of rainbow color that built the way the edges of a cloud build, past orbs, spirals, wheels of flame.

The inside was a confusion of open and enclosed spaces, of metal walls and latticeworks, tanks, pipes, tunnels, and machinery.

After laboring to clear the area of dead steel latticeworks and structural frames, the carcass of a transformer that had clung obstinately to its concrete base, and assorted scrap-metal undergrowth, he had prepared an area of the hydrocarbon soil below the cliff with nitrogenous loams collected from the stream bed, and planted the seed culture for the outside wall in a line ten paces out from the cliff base, curving inward at its ends to close off the frontage of a dry cave.