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Web
can refer to:
Spider web
: A mesh built by a
spider
, composed of
spider silk
and usually used for catching
prey
.
World Wide Web
: A
Hypertext
system that operates over the
Internet
, used for serving
webpages
and transferring files.
WEB
: A computer programming system created by
Donald Knuth
to implement
literate programming
.
Web
,
John Wyndham
's posthumously published novel about an attempt to establish a Utopian civilization on an island populated by spiders.
web feeding: feeding a
printing press
from a roll of paper as opposed to feeding it with single sheets, hence "web offset" (
offset printing
).
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