Meaning

7 senses
  1. A structure made of connected strands of metal, fiber, or other flexible/ductile material, with evenly spaced openings between them.

    Netz, Gitter

    се́ткаsétka, сетьsetʹ

    сі́ткаsítka, сітьsitʹ, мере́жаmeréža

  2. The opening or space enclosed by the threads of a net between knot and knot, or the threads enclosing such a space.

    пе́тля́pétljá, яче́йкаjačéjka

  3. The engagement of the teeth of wheels, or of a wheel and rack.

    зацепле́ниеzaceplénije

  4. A measure of fineness (particle size) of ground material. A powder that passes through a sieve having 300 openings per linear inch but does not pass 400 openings per linear inch is said to be -300 +400 mesh.

    the number of openings per linear inch of a screen; measures size of particles

  5. A polygon mesh.

  6. In mesh analysis: a loop in an electric circuit (to which Kirchhoff's voltage law can be applied).

  7. A network topology with each device connected to multiple other devices in lieu of a central switch. Redundancy on a mesh network prevents single points of failure.

    the topology of a network whose components are all connected directly to every other component

Examples

11 sentences
  1. I have mesh mittens at home.

    ruУ меня есть сетчатые митенки дома.

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  2. Their comedic styles mesh well with each others'.

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  3. The demolition site is covered with plastic mesh to keep down the dust.

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  4. Ziri's tent had mesh windows.

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  5. The metal mesh is assembled on huge automated machines that weld many joints at once.

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Translations

9 languages
Українська
By meaning 1
structure:
Русский
By meaning 3
structure:
opening:
engagement of teeth of gears:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
structure:

Origin

From Middle English mesche, from Old English masc (“net”) (perhaps influenced in form by r

From Middle English mesche, from Old English masc (“net”) (perhaps influenced in form by related Old English mæscre (“mesh, spot”)), from the related Proto-Germanic *maskwǭ and *maskrǭ respectively, from Proto-Indo-European *mezg- (“to knit, twist, plait”).

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Forms

plural: meshes
Singularmesh
Pluralmeshes

regular

Synonyms

10 synonyms
Close in meaning

Word family

25 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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