WORLD WIDE WEB

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does World Wide Web mean? 

• WORLD WIDE WEB (noun)
  The noun WORLD WIDE WEB has 1 sense:

1. computer network consisting of a collection of internet sites that offer text and graphics and sound and animation resources through the hypertext transfer protocol

  Familiarity information: WORLD WIDE WEB used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• WORLD WIDE WEB (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Computer network consisting of a collection of internet sites that offer text and graphics and sound and animation resources through the hypertext transfer protocol

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

web; World Wide Web; WWW

Hypernyms ("World Wide Web" is a kind of...):

computer network ((computer science) a network of computers)

 Context examples 

The main purpose of this identification is to enable interaction with representations of the resource over a network, typically the World Wide Web, using specific protocols.

(Document Version Uniform Resource Locator, NCI Thesaurus/BRIDG)

A voluntary network or grid connecting individuals and institutions to enable the sharing of data and tools, creating a World Wide Web of cancer research.

(Cancer Bioinformatics Grid, NCI Thesaurus)

This database is a catalog of human genes and genetic disorders authored and edited by Dr. Victor A. McKusick and his colleagues at Johns Hopkins and elsewhere, and developed for the World Wide Web by NCBI, the National Center for Biotechnology Information.

(Online Mendelian Inheritance in Man, NCI Thesaurus)