reticulation

[ri-tik-yuh-ley-shuhn]

noun

1. a reticulated formation, arrangement, or appearance; network.

Other Word Forms

• interreticulation noun

Word History and Origins

Origin of reticulation¹

First recorded in 1665–75; reticulate + -ion

Example Sentences

Dendritic cells connect with each other via TNTs in a process called reticulation.

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The verses, meanwhile, explore the melancholy reticulations of the American landscape, everything from the limits of rural economy to the inevitability of domestic disjunction.

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To-day, as shown elsewhere in this book, artesian water is flowing to such an extent in Queensland that it would, with complete reticulation, supply 12,000,000 people with 40 gallons a day each.

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The corollas are obliquely funnel-shaped, of a dirty yellow or buff, marked with a close reticulation of purple veins.

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Edges of reticulations more or less hairy, especially toward the apex; lateral fascicles generally on longer peduncles.

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Related Words

• chain 
• grid 
• net 
• organization 
• structure 
• system 
• web