reticulation
Americannoun
Other Word Forms
- interreticulation noun
Etymology
Origin of reticulation
First recorded in 1665–75; reticulate + -ion
Example Sentences
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He says that desalinated water probably costs two or three times more than if you had to build a damn and reticulation system, but it would have cost more a few years ago.
From BBC • Mar. 1, 2010
We discard the common alum which we found liable to produce a slight reticulation.
From Photographic Reproduction Processes by Duchochois, Peter C.
The stylist may vault airily into the saddle of logic, or in the delicate reticulation of his silver-fire paragraphs he may take, as an exemplar, John Henry Newman.
From Unicorns by Huneker, James
The immense reticulation of railroads, amounting to an aggregate length of 2720 miles, which are tributary to this port, now daily brings into Chicago the vast amount of agricultural produce exhibited in our tables.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 41, March, 1861 by Various
Do you see how this iron reticulation of social rule and custom and force makes a scaffolding on which this tameless race build up their lives?
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 11, No. 67, May, 1863 by Various
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