reticulation
Americannoun
Other Word Forms
- interreticulation noun
Etymology
Origin of reticulation
First recorded in 1665–75; reticulate + -ion
Example Sentences
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Dendritic cells connect with each other via TNTs in a process called reticulation.
From Scientific American
The verses, meanwhile, explore the melancholy reticulations of the American landscape, everything from the limits of rural economy to the inevitability of domestic disjunction.
From The New Yorker
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.
From Project Gutenberg
The corollas are obliquely funnel-shaped, of a dirty yellow or buff, marked with a close reticulation of purple veins.
From Project Gutenberg
Edges of reticulations more or less hairy, especially toward the apex; lateral fascicles generally on longer peduncles.
From Project Gutenberg
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