- network, web - an interconnected system of things or people; "he owned a network of shops"; "retirement meant dropping out of a whole network of people who had been part of my life"; "tangled in a web of cloth"
--1 is a kind of system, scheme
--1 has particulars: reticulum; espionage network; old boy network; support systemDerived form: verb network1 - network - (broadcasting) a communication system consisting of a group of broadcasting stations that all transmit the same programs; "the networks compete to broadcast important sports events"
--2 is a kind of communication system, communication equipment
- net, network, mesh, meshing, meshwork - an open fabric of string or rope or wire woven together at regular intervals
--3 is a kind of fabric, cloth, material, textile
--3 has parts: backbone
--3 has particulars:chicken wire; gauze, netting, veiling; hairnet; reseau; safety net; save-all; snood; spark arrester, sparker; tulle; wirework, grillwork - network - a system of intersecting lines or channels; "a railroad network"; "a network of canals"
--4 is a kind of system
--4 has particulars:grid, reference grid; reseau; reticle, reticule, graticule; reticulation - network, electronic network - (electronics) a system of interconnected electronic components or circuits
--5 is a kind of system
--5 has particulars:computer network; early warning system; superhighway, information superhighway - net, network, mesh, meshing, meshwork - an open fabric of string or rope or wire woven together at regular intervals