spiderwebbing
spiderwebbing Lexical Profile
spiderwebbing Game Scores & Validity
• noun
A radiating, interconnected pattern of fine cracks or lines resembling a spider's web, especially in glass, glaze, paint, or ice.
"The antique ceramic vase showed delicate spiderwebbing across its glaze after decades of temperature changes."
A brainstorming and note-taking technique in which a central concept is written in the middle of a page and related ideas branch outward in a web-like diagram.
"The writing instructor encouraged the students to use spiderwebbing to organize their thoughts before drafting the essay."
• verb
To form or cover with an intricate, radiating network of cracks, lines, or filaments resembling a spider's web (present participle of spiderweb).
"Frost was spiderwebbing across the windowpane as the night temperature dropped below freezing."