ohippy

I keep seeing the word 'reticulated' in house details. The word does not appear in my dictionary here so I have no idea what it means.

Can anyone tell me what it means and if it's a good thing or not please?

scutterUK

Reticulated (a.) Resembling network; having the form or appearance of a net; netted; as, a reticulated structure.

Reticulated (a.) Having veins, fibers, or lines crossing like the threads or fibers of a network; as, a reticulate leaf; a reticulated surface; a reticulated wing of an insect.


... you're on your own from here on!

ABCDiamond

Reticulated sewage systems carry sewage from homes to modern sewage treatment plants. Treated water from these plants is either reused or released into the environment

Yep, its a good thing, the alternative is - a septic system to treat the sewage on site.

Simone

Reticulation is sprinklers in your garden.
But they are ones that are built in so to speak.

So you have a whole network of sprinklers, and you only have to turn on one tap, and they all go on (or you have a timer).
Sometimes you have ones that pop out of the lawn, sometimes they are already visible, like inbetween the plants

Larissa

I thought that they were below ground "leaky pipes", so that the water goes around the roots etc. and so there is less evaporation and the plants don't get scorched by the water being magnified by the sun? Well, that's what I'd do if I was designing an irrigation system!

ABCDiamond

It looks like there are a couple of correct versions, and a few others that really don't apply eg: Reticulation in Motion Picture Film Processing.

Simone

Oh, never heard of this before

I guess 'reticulated' and 'reticulation' mean 2 different things.

ohippy, you have the first in you text and the second in you title...



Larissa, yep that sounds about right
I guess what I said was just a normal sprinkler system.

scutterUK

when i had a quick look on google i found a link to a page referring to the pattern on a giraffe's neck! Obviously nothing to do with houses but still interesting.

saraliz

The first house I ever rented in Oz was advertised as being 'reticulated' (which meant nothing to me at the time). Turns out it just had a built in sprinkler system with an adjustable timer. Every so often little sprinkler heads would pop out of the ground and spray water everywhere (including all over my just-dry laundry, which I would inevitably manage to hang out at exactly the wrong time!).

ABCDiamond

Reticulated Headdress

Do you think I should stop now ?

And I couldn't resist this one Reticulated Dascyllus. It's a fish !!

Simone

lol! You can keep going, but I'm not reading it all, cos I'm
trying to work

Larissa

I'm sure that there's such a thing as reticulated epithelium... can't think where it is though!

ABCDiamond

You are absolutely right.....

the epithelium may specialise in places to form an open meshwork of cells with an incomplete basal lamina (a reticulated epithelium) which allows the infiltration of the epithelium by lymphocytes and macrophages

here

ohippy

So now I'm totally confused - is it a net, sewage system, sprinkler, giraffes neck or headdress ?

As it obviously relates to houses could only be a sewage or sprinkler system but these are rather different things !

Simone

My guess would be the sprinkler thingy's

Did it say 'reticulated' or reticulation?
I think if they meant the sewage, they would say 'reticulated sewage'. And also, I'm afraid people wouldn't care much about which sewage (??)

The sprinkler system thingys on the other hand are very popular, and having that would be a plus.