grid-like structure of threads or yarns
Wikidata facts
- Subclass of
- structure
- Image
- Orange texture made of a fishing net on a wooden board at golden hour.jpg
- Has use
- lexicology
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- described by source
- Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary
- topic's main category
- Category:Nets (devices)
- on focus list of Wikimedia project
- Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4
- Commons category
- Nets
- start time
- 8000-00-00
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Encyclopedic overview
A cargo net being used to unload sacks from a ship at Haikou New Port, Haikou City, Hainan, China
A net comprises threads or yarns knotted and twisted into a grid-like structure which blocks the passage of large items, while letting small items and fluids pass. It requires less material than something sheet-like, and provides a degree of transparency, as well as flexibility and lightness.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “net” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.