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World Wide Web

The World Wide Web is another way to describe the Internet, which is a network of computers which are connected and that share information and allow communication around the world. (noun)

An example of the World Wide Web is the Internet.

See World Wide Web in Webster's New World College Dictionary

a group of Internet sites interconnected by means of hypertext, providing access to images and sound in addition to text

See World Wide Web in American Heritage Dictionary 4

noun Abbr. WWW

The complete set of documents residing on all Internet servers that use the HTTP protocol, accessible to users via a simple point-and-click system.

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