Web

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Web usually refers to:

Spider web, a silken structure created by the animal
World Wide Web or the Web, an Internet-based hypertext system

Web or WEB may also refer to:

People

W. E. B. Du Bois (1868–1963), African-American sociologist, historian, civil rights activist, author and editor

Arts, entertainment, and media

Fictitious entities

Web (comics), a comic book character
The Web, a dangerous region of space in the ReBoot universe

Films

Web (2013 film), a documentary
Webs (film), a 2003 science-fiction movie
The Web (film), a 1947 film noir thriller

Literature

Web (novel) by John Wyndham, posthumously published novel set on an island populated by spiders
The Web (series), a series of science fiction stories
World English Bible (WEB), a 2000 public domain translation of the Bible

Music

Web Entertainment, a record label
Web (album), a 1995 album by Bill Laswell and Terre Thaemlitz
"The Web", a song from the album Script for a Jester's Tear by Marillion

Radio

WEBS (AM), a radio station licensed to Calhoun, Georgia, United States
West End Broadcast (WeB FM), a radio station in Newcastle, England, that was a forerunner of NE1fm

Television

The Web (TV series), a mystery/suspense anthology series
"Web", an episode of season 7 of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
"The Web", an episode of Blake's 7
The WeB, original name of The WB 100+ Station Group, a defunct TV programming service

Other uses in arts, entertainment, and media

West-East Bag, an international women artists network active from 1971 to 1973

Computing

WEB, a literate programming system created by Donald Knuth
GNOME Web, a Web browser for the GNOME desktop environment
Web.com, a public company selling Web design, hosting and registration to small businesses
Webs (web hosting), a freemium Web hosting and website building service

Engineering

Web (manufacturing), continuous sheets of material passed over rollers
- Web, a roll of paper in offset printing
Web, the vertical element of an I-beam
Web, the interior beams of a truss

Mathematics

Web (differential geometry), a type of set allowing an intrinsic Riemannian-geometry characterisation of the additive separation of variables in the Hamilton–Jacobi equation
Web, a linear system of divisors of dimension 3

See also

Interdigital webbing, the presence of membranes of skin between the digits
- Webbed toes
Webb (disambiguation)
Webbing, a strong woven fabric

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