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latticework

[ lat-is-wurk ]

noun

  1. work consisting of crossed strips usually arranged in a diagonal pattern of open spaces.


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Word History and Origins

Origin of latticework1

First recorded in 1480–90; lattice + work
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Example Sentences

The rotors sit on a latticework canopy, with a rotor on each of the Hexa’s six arms and 12 rotors spaced evenly around the outer ring.

In many data centers today, chilled water is piped through the latticework of server racks to more efficiently cool the facility, liquid being a superior convective agent than air.

Milford Wolpoff, a paleoanthropologist at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, and colleagues revived the latticework of Weidenreich’s trellis model in the 1980s.

Once a strangler is established in the crown, a latticework of downward-growing stems thickens with time and often surrounds the host, sometimes creating a hollow center if the host has soft wood and subsequently rots inside.

These moves show China’s determination to control what historians call “the infrastructure of empire,” the latticework that enables the international system to function.

The floors were of earth beaten hard, and the windows had bars or latticework, but no glass.

Mr. Tibbets guarded them for years, had them fenced with high latticework, and seldom allowed any one to touch them.

Observe that the three opening cells are lashed together loosely with a latticework.

Marechal Niel roses, and honeysuckles, and some tropical vines, climbed over latticework almost to the roof.

But, looking out through the marble latticework into the blue twilight, she was somewhat reassured.

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