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
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 Our First Half-Century: A Review of Queensland Progress Based Upon Official Information by Queensland
And not only the least trace of reticulation is avoided, but the tissue, drying quite flat, lies in perfect contact with the negative, which is quite important to obtain proofs exactly sharp all over.
From Photographic Reproduction Processes by Peter C. Duchochois
He addressed an intimate vanity and became the inspiration of every choice, and in a mysterious reticulation of emotions, tastes and ideas, life itself seemed to converge to his ultimate authority.
From Evelyn Innes by George (George Augustus) Moore
The immense reticulation of railroads, amounting to an aggregate length of 2720 miles, which are tributary to this port, now daily brings into Chicago the vast amount of agricultural produce exhibited in our tables.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 41, March, 1861 by Various