World Wide Web
WordNet
noun
(1) Computer network consisting of a collection of internet sites that offer text and graphics and sound and animation resources through the hypertext transfer protocol
WiktionaryText
Proper noun
World Wide Web
- Collectively, all of the web pages on the Internet which hyperlink to each other and to other kinds of documents and media.
- Internet resources that are retrieved by Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP).
Usage notes
- World Wide Web is a proper noun and each word is spelled with an initial capital.
- Although worldwide is a single word (also spelt as world-wide), World Wide Web is spelled as three separate words.