reticulation
Americannoun
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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
They regard the small well-marked series which have been styled natural families, as groups which should be placed between the isolated species and their nearest neighbours so as to form a kind of reticulation.
From Evolution, Old & New Or, the Theories of Buffon, Dr. Erasmus Darwin and Lamarck, as compared with that of Charles Darwin by Samuel Butler
For very small motors, applicable specially to domestic purposes such as ventilation, there is one source of power which, in all places within the reticulation areas of waterworks, may be had practically for nothing.
From Twentieth Century Inventions A Forecast by George Sutherland
Skeleton dense, forming a close reticulation; radiating fibres slender but quite distinct, running up right through the sponge, crossed at frequent intervals by single spicules or groups of spicules.
From Freshwater Sponges, Hydroids & Polyzoa by Nelson Annandale
In some individuals the dark reticulation on the dorsum is faint.
From A Review of the Frogs of the Hyla bistincta Group by William E. Duellman
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