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

"The tympanum of the gable is covered with a reticulation of round beads or rolls."

From Scottish Cathedrals and Abbeys by Butler, Dugald

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

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)

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