Web

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Contents 1 Biology 2 Computing 3 Publications 4 Television, radio and film 5 Miscellaneous 6 See also

Web may refer to:

[edit] Biology

• Spider web, a mesh built by a spider, composed of spider silk and usually used for trapping prey
• Webbing between fingers and/or toes of aquatic animals

[edit] Computing

• World Wide Web or "the Web", a hypertext system that operates over the Internet
  • WorldWideWeb, the world's first Web browser
  • Web 2.0, a perceived transition of the Web from a collection of Web sites to a full-fledged computing platform serving Web applications
  • Web.com, a public company that offers websites and other services for small businesses and consumers
• WEB, a computer programming system created by Donald Knuth to implement literate programming
• Webs (web hosting), a website which allows users to create free websites

[edit] Publications

• The Web (comics), a comic book character
• Web (novel) by John Wyndham, posthumously published novel set on an island populated by spiders
• World English Bible (WEB), a public domain translation of the Bible
• The Web (series), a series of science fiction stories

[edit] Television, radio and film

• The Web (film), a film noir
• Web (Law & Order: Special Victims Unit), an episode of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
• Webs (film), a 2003 sci-fi movie
• The Web ReBoot, a form of space in the Reboot universe where concentrated, fragmented data gives home to dangerous creatures, storms, and causes degradation in those not of the Web
• West End Broadcast (WeB FM), a radio station in Newcastle, England, that was a forerunner of NE1fm

[edit] Miscellaneous

• In mathematics, a linear system of divisors of dimension 3
• Offset printing web, a roll of paper is used, rather than individual pages
• Steel I-beams or trusses are made with a web, centered between the top and bottom flange
• Web Entertainment, a record label
• Web (manufacturing) continuous sheets of material passed over rollers
• b:Nets, Webs and the Information Infrastructure

[edit] See also

• Webb

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