English

Noun

webwork ‎(usually uncountable, plural webworks)

1. A net or web; something structured or interlinked in a weblike manner.
   • 1946, William Allison Shimer, The American scholar

     Most frequently, the three make up the webwork of his literary fabric.

   • 1990, Noël Carroll, The philosophy of horror, or, Paradoxes of the heart

     Very quickly it becomes evident that these webworks are part of an unaccountably large lair of thousands of spiders.

   • 2002, Sten F Odenwald, Patterns in the void: why nothing is important

     In some sense, the entire webwork of space-time would dissolve...

   • 2003, David Carr, The promise of cultural institutions

     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, Ben Jones, The rope eater

     Delicate fingers of frost reached up from the floor and extended down from the ceiling; the bottles were covered with a lacy webwork...

Synonyms

• meshwork
• network