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reseau

  1. n. a net or mesh foundation for lace

  2. a network of fine lines used by astronomers as a reference for measurements on star photographs

  3. [also: reseaux (pl)]

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Réseau

The term réseau derives from a French word meaning "network". It may mean:

  • a network of fine lines on a glass plate, used in photographic telescopes to make a corresponding network on photographs of the stars: see Réseau plate
  • a system of weather stations under a single agency, or cooperating on common goals
  • an intelligence network as used by John Le Carré, in Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy, chapter 11.
  • the net in bobbin lace

Usage examples of "reseau".

And in their branches on a winter night you can see they make a reseau about the stars.

Boston sky that instead of a kindly curved blue dome with your clouds and your stars and sun was a flat square coldly Euclidian grid with black axes and a thread-fine reseau of lines creating grid-type coordinates, the whole grid the same color as a D.

Following the failure of Petit-Clamart and the interrogation of the prisoners three whole reseaux inside France had had to be closed down.