World Wide Web

nounverified·updated May 9, 2026

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The global, hypermedia-based collection of information and services that is available on Internet servers and is accessed by browsers using Hypertext Transfer Protocol and other information retrieval mechanisms.

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Senses

1 more sense beyond the canonical

Wordset Dictionary

computer network consisting of a collection of internet sites that offer text and graphics and sound and animation resources through the hypertext transfer protocol

Classifications

per-axis with provenance

Entity Type

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Sensitivity

unclassified

Information Class

unclassified

Variants

5 surface forms

acronym: "the Web", WWW, W3
synonym: web
plural: World Wide Webs
possessive: World Wide Web's
pluralpossessive: World Wide Webs'

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