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An interconnected or intersecting configuration or system of components
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reticulation
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Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Reticulation is a net -like pattern, arrangement, or structure. Reticulation or Reticulated may refer to: Reticulation (single-access key) is a structure of an identification tree , where there are several possible routes to a correct identification; the ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. (photography) the formation of a network of cracks or wrinkles in a photographic emulsion an arrangement resembling a net or network; "the reticulation of a leaf"; "the reticulation of a photographic emulsion"
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. A network of criss-crossing lines, strands, cables or pipes
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1670s, noun of action or state from reticulate (v.).
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Reticulation \Re*tic`u*la"tion\, n. The quality or state of being reticulated, or netlike; that which is reticulated; network; an organization resembling a net. The particular net you occupy in the great reticulation. --Carlyle.
Usage examples of reticulation.
The chalet was a frothy cluster of onion domes and flanged turrets and reticulations in the style called Arabian Nights Dymaxion.
This form of reticulation is calculated to ave a confusing and distractive effect on wiftly moving, airborne archers.
The appearance presented by these radicles after the seven days was very curious, for the black grease had been drawn out into the finest longitudinal striae, with dots and reticulations, which covered their surfaces for a length of from 26 to 44 mm.
A single chiselled dash deepened between her eyebrows when she concentrated and her skin, rather than the smooth porcelain austerity of her fellow Spacers, showed the reticulations of virgin, unrejuvenated or rehabbed derma.