a metal network formed by suitably stamping or cutting sheet metal and stretching it to form open meshes. It is used as a reinforcing medium in concrete construction, as lathing for plasterwork and various other purposes., a network of diamond shaped meshes formed by stretching sheet or strip metal in which parallel incisions have been cut, a metallic mesh produced by making a number of short parallel slits in echelon close together in a metal sheet and then pulling the sheet to open out the slits to give holes