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reticulation|rɪtɪkjʊˈleɪʃən|
[See reticulate a. and -ation.]
A network; an arrangement of lines, etc., resembling a net; reticulated structure or appearance. a. spec. in Photogr., (the formation of) a network of wrinkles or cracks in a photographic emulsion.
1671Grew Anat. Pl. (1682) 47 Small Branches..all meeting and making a kind of Reticulation. 1841Forbes Hist. Brit. Star-fishes 84 At the angles of the reticulations arise conical blunt spines. 1863M. J. Berkeley Brit. Mosses 44 The reticulation of the leaves is often indicative of natural affinity. 1886Ibis July 225 Charadriidæ having the tarsus covered..with a network of fine hexagonal reticulations. 1888H. C. Jones Introd. Sci. & Pract. Photogr. xix. 239 Concerning the reticulation of gelatine films, increase of the bichromate tends to produce grain. 1929R. H. Goodsall Beginner's Guide to Photogr. vi. 36 The removal of a negative from a comparatively warm bath of developer to a cold fixing solution..may cause ‘frilling’ or reticulation, i.e. curious wavy marks in the gelatine. 1967V. Strauss Printing Industry v. 269/2 It seems that the tonal qualities of collotype prints result from the interaction of two related items. One is generally called reticulation; the other is varying ink receptivity. 1977J. Hedgecoe Photographer's Handbk. 241 Modern films have built-in resistance to reticulation.
fig.1839Carlyle Chartism ii. 14 The question, Is thrift increasing? runs through the reticulation, and is as water spilt on the ground. 1855Motley Dutch Rep. I. 243 The minute reticulations of tyranny which he had begun already to spin about a whole people. 1878Bayne Purit. Rev. iii. 82 Penetrating with the fine reticulation of its common Christian sentiment into recesses of the German forests.
b. ? Austral. and N.Z. A network of pipes used in irrigation and water supply. Also transf. (see quot. 1977).
1936Jrnl. R. Soc. W. Austral. XXII. p. xxi, The Government has helped very materially in the following ways to meet the increased demand for water:—1. By reticulation from the Mundaring–Kalgoorlie pipe-line... 2. By ‘District Water Supplies’, i.e., reticulation from rock-catchments. 1937Discovery June 186/2 Twenty miles of 12-inch pipe have been laid from the dam to the mines; the dam and reticulation lines cost {pstlg}150,000. 1977N.Z. Herald 8 Jan. 2–10/4 (Advt.), We require..two plumbers with experience in commercial work. The contract involves complete reticulation of bedroom wings in conjunction with building renovations. |