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Web

Web may refer to:

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

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

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

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

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

Source: Wikipedia

Translation

The word "Web" occurs as such in the following languages: English, German, Spanish, Dutch, Simple English.

Translation(s) in other languages: Azeri: tor, Min Nan: Bāng-lō·, Cebuano: lawâ, Italian: WEB, Japanese: ウェブ (曖昧さ回避), Korean: , Finnish: seitti, Turkish: , Chinese: .


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