mesh
Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
mesh/meʃ/
▶noun
- 1 material made of a network of wire or thread.
- 2 an interlaced structure.
- 3 a complex or constricting situation.
- 4 Computing a set of finite elements used to represent a geometric object.
- 1 make or become entangled or entwined.
■ (of a gearwheel) lock together with another.
■ (often mesh with) be or bring into harmony.
- 2 Computing represent by means of a mesh.
– derivatives
meshed adjective.
meshed adjective.
– origin ME: prob. from an unrecorded OE word rel. to MDu. maesche, of Gmc origin.
'mesh' also found in these Oxford entries:
cage
- cancellous
- chain-link
- chicken wire
- dreamcatcher
- expanded
- fibrin
- filet
- fishnet
- gauze
- hairnet
- hammock
- intermesh
- jelly bag
- macle
- mail
- mantle
- mascle
- micromesh
- sieve
- silk screen
- synchromesh
- trammel
- web
- wove paper
