mesh
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Etymology[edit]
From Middle English mesche, from Old English masc (“net”) (perhaps influenced in form by related Old English mæscre (“mesh, spot”)) both from Proto-Germanic *maskrǭ, *maskwǭ, from Proto-Indo-European *mezg- (“to knit, twist, plait”).
Akin to Old High German māsca (“mesh”), Old Saxon maska (“net”), Old Norse mǫskvi, mǫskun (“mesh”).
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Noun[edit]
mesh (plural meshes)
- A structure made of connected strands of metal, fibre, or other flexible/ductile material, with evenly spaced openings between them.
- c. 1596–1598 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merchant of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act III, scene ii]:
- a golden mesh to entrap the hearts of men
- The opening or space enclosed by the threads of a net between knot and knot, or the threads enclosing such a space.
- The engagement of the teeth of wheels, or of a wheel and rack.
- 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.
- (computer graphics) A polygon mesh.
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structure
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opening
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engagement of teeth of gears
measure of fineness
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computing: polygon mesh — see polygon mesh
Verb[edit]
mesh (third-person singular simple present meshes, present participle meshing, simple past and past participle meshed)
- (transitive, intransitive) To connect together by interlocking, as gears do.
- (intransitive, figuratively, by extension) To fit in; to come together harmoniously.
- The music meshed well with the visuals in that film.
- (transitive) To catch in a mesh.
- a. 1547, Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey, "Description of the fickle affections, pangs, and slights of love"
- I know how loue doth rage vpon a yelding minde:
How smal a net may take and meash a hart of gentle kinde
- I know how loue doth rage vpon a yelding minde:
- a. 1547, Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey, "Description of the fickle affections, pangs, and slights of love"
Translations[edit]
fit in, come together
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