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Web can refer to:

  • Spider web, a mesh built by a spider, composed of spider silk and usually used for catching prey
  • World Wide Web or "the Web", a hypertext system that operates over the Internet, used for serving Web pages and transferring files
  • Web 2.0, a perceived transition of the World Wide Web from a collection of Web sites to a full-fledged computing platform serving web applications
  • Web offset printing, feeding a printing press from a roll of paper (called a web) as opposed to feeding it with single sheets
  • The web of a steel I-beam or truss in construction is the rigid structure, centered between the top and bottom flange, which transfers the structural load to steel columns
  • WEB, a computer programming system created by Donald Knuth to implement literate programming
  • Web, John Wyndham's posthumously published novel about an attempt to establish a Utopian civilization on an island populated by spiders
  • The World English Bible, a public domain translation of the Bible