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reticulation

American  
[ri-tik-yuh-ley-shuhn] / rɪˌtɪk yəˈleɪ ʃən /

noun

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


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

Sporangia sub-globose, crowded or superimposed, irregular sessile; hypothallus none; capillitium of slender tubules, arising from the sporangium base, branched, marked with branching veins in an irregular reticulation, and terminating in free extremities.

From The North American Slime-Moulds A Descriptive List of All Species of Myxomycetes Hitherto Reported from the Continent of North America, with Notes on Some Extra-Limital Species by MacBride, Thomas H. (Thomas Huston)

The color of the iris in living frogs varies from creamy silver to grayish yellow or bronze with a variable amount of black reticulation.

From Neotropical Hylid Frogs, Genus Smilisca by Duellman, William E.

It is given to complete a mesh in the reticulation of the orders of life.

From Love's Meinie Three Lectures on Greek and English Birds by Ruskin, John

This is a very interesting species closely related to the preceding from which it differs chiefly in the reticulation and generally more uniform character of the spores.

From The North American Slime-Moulds A Descriptive List of All Species of Myxomycetes Hitherto Reported from the Continent of North America, with Notes on Some Extra-Limital Species by MacBride, Thomas H. (Thomas Huston)