n. The collective total of all computer installations that are connected to the internet and provide access to other computers connected to the internet, using hypertext transfer protocol, to computer files called web pages, which may have text, graphics, audio or animated video data, as well as pages which may provide data or information in all those forms. Syn. -- Web, the web, WWW. [ PJC ]
(adj) of worldwide scope or applicability; ; - Christopher Morley, Syn. ecumenical, universal, general, world-wide, worldwide, oecumenical, Example:an issue of cosmopolitan import; the shrewdest political and ecumenical comment of our time; universal experience
(adj) involving the entire earth; not limited or provincial in scope, Syn. worldwide, planetary, world, world-wide, Example:global war; global monetary policy; neither national nor continental but planetary; a world crisis; of worldwide significance