reticulation
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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
High-Low Jack was the congenial spirit by whose active and intelligent aid he promised himself the pleasure of seeing before long the whole Pacific Ocean covered with a vast reticulation of electric cables.
From All Around the Moon by Roth, Edward
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 Annandale, Nelson
This consists in the diffusion over the entire disc of fleeting blurred patches, separated by a reticulation of sharply-outlined and regularly-arranged granules.
From A Popular History of Astronomy During the Nineteenth Century Fourth Edition by Clerke, Agnes M. (Agnes Mary)
They have an oval form and are surrounded by a membranous margin on which traces of reticulation can often be detected.
From Freshwater Sponges, Hydroids & Polyzoa by Annandale, Nelson