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meshRefers to an interconnect architecture that cross-connects several devices. See mesh network, wireless mesh network, Live Mesh and switch fabric. mesh Engineering the engagement of teeth on interacting gearwheels mesh [mesh] (computer science) (design engineering) A size of screen or of particles passed by it in terms of the number of openings occurring per linear inch in each direction. Also known as mesh size. (electricity) A set of branches forming a closed path in a network so that if any one branch is omitted from the set, the remaining branches of the set do not form a closed path. Also known as loop. (mathematics) (mechanical engineering) Engagement or working contact of teeth of gears or of a gear and a rack. (mining engineering) A closed path traversed through the network in ventilation surveys. The size of diamonds as determined by sieves. (textiles) Any fabric, knitted or woven, with an open, fine or coarse texture.
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But, out of the whole human family, it would not have been easy to select the same number of wise and virtuous persons, who should he less capable of sitting in judgment on an erring woman's heart, and disentangling its mesh of good and evil, than the sages of rigid aspect towards whom Hester Prynne now turned her face. And for a good quarter of a mile, from the dockyard gate to the farthest corner, where the old housed-in hulk, the President (drill-ship, then, of the Naval Reserve), used to lie with her frigate side rubbing against the stone of the quay, above all these hulls, ready and unready, a hundred and fifty lofty masts, more or less, held out the web of their rigging like an immense net, in whose close mesh, black against the sky, the heavy yards seemed to be entangled and suspended. At the same time the chauffeur attempted to start his machine, but it was evident that something had gone wrong, as though the gears refused to mesh, and the delay caused by this, while he pushed the lever into reverse and backed the car a few inches before again attempting to go ahead, gave the nurse time to reach the side of the taxicab. |
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