Web most often refers to: *

Spider web A spider web, spiderweb, spider's web, or cobweb (from the archaic word '' coppe'', meaning "spider") is a structure created by a spider out of proteinaceous spider silk extruded from its spinnerets, generally meant to catch its prey. Sp ...

, a silken structure created by the animal *

World Wide Web The World Wide Web (WWW), commonly known as the Web, is an information system enabling documents and other web resources to be accessed over the Internet. Documents and downloadable media are made available to the network through web se ...

or the Web, an Internet-based hypertext system Web, WEB, or the Web may also refer to:

Computing

* WEB, a literate programming system created by Donald Knuth * GNOME Web, a Web browser * Web.com, a web-design company * Webs (web hosting), a Web hosting and website building service

Engineering

* Web (manufacturing), continuous sheets of material passed over rollers ** Web, a roll of paper in

offset printing Offset printing is a common printing technique in which the inked image is transferred (or "offset") from a plate to a rubber blanket and then to the printing surface. When used in combination with the lithographic process, which is based on ...

* Web, the vertical element of an

I-beam An I-beam, also known as H-beam (for universal column, UC), w-beam (for "wide flange"), universal beam (UB), rolled steel joist (RSJ), or double-T (especially in Polish, Bulgarian, Spanish, Italian and German), is a beam with an or -shaped cr ...

or a rail profile * Web, the interior beams of a

truss A truss is an assembly of ''members'' such as beams, connected by ''nodes'', that creates a rigid structure. In engineering, a truss is a structure that "consists of two-force members only, where the members are organized so that the assembla ...

Films

* ''Web'' (2013 film), a documentary * ''Webs'' (film), a 2003 science-fiction movie * ''The Web'' (film), a 1947 film noir * Charlotte's Web (2006 film)

Literature

* ''Web'' (comics), a MLJ comicbook character (created 1942) * ''Web'' (novel), by John Wyndham (1979) *

The Web (series) The Web is a series of 12 books for young adults, novellas about the Internet of the future, edited by Simon Spanton, written by English language science fiction and fantasy authors like Stephen Baxter, Stephen Bowkett, Eric Brown, Pat Cadigan ...

, a science fiction series (1997–1999) * World English Bible, a public-domain Bible translation (2000) * Charlotte's Web, children's novel by E. B. White (1952)

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 In algebraic geometry, a linear system of divisors is an algebraic generalization of the geometric notion of a family of curves; the dimension of the linear system corresponds to the number of parameters of the family. These arose first in the fo ...

of dimension 3

Music

* Web Entertainment, a record label * ''Web'' (album), a 1995 album by Bill Laswell and Terre Thaemlitz * "The Web", a song by Marillion from '' Script for a Jester's Tear'' * "The Web", a song by Neurosis from '' Souls at Zero'' * The Web (band), a British jazz/blues band active in the late 1960s and early 1970s

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'' (1950 TV series), a 1950–1954 American mystery/suspense anthology television series that was broadcast on CBS * ''The Web'' (1957 TV series), an American mystery/suspense anthology television series, similar to the 1950–1954 series, that aired on NBC in 1957 as a summer replacement series * '' W.E.B.'', a 1978 American TV series * The Web, a fictional region of space in the ''

ReBoot In computing, rebooting is the process by which a running computer system is restarted, either intentionally or unintentionally. Reboots can be either a cold reboot (alternatively known as a hard reboot) in which the power to the system is phys ...

'' television series (and game) * "Web", an episode of season 7 of ''Law & Order: Special Victims Unit'' * "The Web", an episode of ''Blake's 7''

Other uses

West-East Bag West-East Bag (WEB) was an international women artists network active from 1971 to 1973. West-East Bag formed towards the beginning of the feminist art movement in the United States. Sources differ as to the exact origin of WEB. In one account, a ...

, an international women artists network active from 1971 to 1973

People with the initials

W. E. B. Du Bois William Edward Burghardt Du Bois ( ; February 23, 1868 – August 27, 1963) was an American-Ghanaian sociologist, socialist, historian, and Pan-Africanist civil rights activist. Born in Great Barrington, Massachusetts, Du Bois grew up in ...

(1868–1963), African-American sociologist, historian, civil rights activist, author and editor