Noun

(en noun)

The silken structure a spider builds using silk secreted from the spinnerets at the caudal tip of its abdomen; a spiderweb.

The sunlight glistened in the dew on the web .

Any interconnected set of persons, places, or things, which when diagrammed resembles a spider's web.

* Hawthorne

the sombre spirit of our forefathers, who wove their web of life with hardly a single thread of rose-colour or gold

* Washington Irving

Such has been the perplexing ingenuity of commentators that it is difficult to extricate the truth from the web of conjectures.

Specifically , the World Wide Web (often capitalized Web).

Let me search the web for that.

(baseball) The part of a baseball mitt between the forefinger and thumb, the webbing.

He caught the ball in the web .

A latticed or woven structure.

The gazebo's roof was a web made of thin strips of wood.

* George Bancroft

The colonists were forbidden to manufacture any woollen, or linen, or cotton fabrics; not a web might be woven, not a shuttle thrown, on penalty of exile.

The interconnection between flanges in structural members, increasing the effective lever arm and so the load capacity of the member.

(rail transport) The thinner vertical section of a railway rail between the top (head) and bottom (foot) of the rail.

A fold of tissue connecting the toes of certain birds, or of other animals.

The series of barbs implanted on each side of the shaft of a feather, whether stiff and united together by barbules, as in ordinary feathers, or soft and separate, as in downy feathers.

(manufacturing) A continuous strip of material carried by rollers during processing.

(lithography) A long sheet of paper which is fed from a roll into a printing press, as opposed to individual sheets of paper.

(dated) A band of webbing used to regulate the extension of the hood of a carriage.

A thin metal sheet, plate, or strip, as of lead.

* Fairfax

And Christians slain roll up in webs of lead.

# The blade of a sword.

#* Fairfax

The sword, whereof the web was steel, / Pommel rich stone, hilt gold.

# The blade of a saw.

# The thin, sharp part of a colter.

# The bit of a key.

Noun

(wikipedia cyberspace)

A world of information through the Internet.

(by extension) The internet as a whole.

* {{quote-news

, year=2012 , date=April 19 , author=Josh Halliday , title=Free speech haven or lawless cesspool – can the internet be civilised? , work=the Guardian citation , page= , passage=However, some have accused cyberspace of provoking a dangerous collapse in the old order of civilised society. The shift in the balance of power online has given rise to a more powerful concern: the rise of the uncivil web.}}

(science fiction) A three-dimensional representation of virtual space in a computer network.

* {{quote-book

, year = 1984 , first = William , last = Gibson , authorlink = William Gibson , title = Neuromancer , page = 51 , passage = Cyberspace . A consensual hallucination experienced daily by billions of legitimate operators, in every nation, by children being taught mathematical concepts... A graphic representation of data abstracted from banks of every computer in the human system. Unthinkable complexity. Lines of light ranged in the nonspace of the mind, clusters and constellations of data. Like city lights, receding... }}