Other forms: meshes, meshed, meshing
A mesh is a net of fine threads or wires. Wire mesh, a fine mesh, mesh over the window.
Mesh size is the measure of how big the holes are, and it decides what a mesh keeps out — a mosquito net and a chicken run need entirely different ones. As a verb, to mesh is to fit together like gear teeth, and figuratively to work well together: their ideas mesh. In networking, a mesh network is one where every device relays for the others. Note enmesh, meaning to entangle.
1nounmeshA net of fine threads or wires.
“A fine wire mesh over the window keeps the mosquitoes out.”
2verbfitTo fit together and work well.
“The two companies' cultures never really meshed, and the merger failed.”
mesh is a net or fitting together.
Old English masc meant a net, from a Germanic root meaning to knit or plait. Mesh and mask are unrelated, though the resemblance has confused people for centuries.
Proto-Indo-European
*mezg- — to knit, twist, plait
Proto-Germanic
*maskwǭ
Old English
masc — net
Middle English
mesche
English, today
mesh
From Middle English mesche, from Old English masc (“net”) (perhaps influenced in form by related Old English mæscre (“mesh, spot”)), from the related Proto-Germanic maskwǭderived? and maskrǭ respectively, from Proto-Indo-European mezg- (“to knit, twist, plait”). Akin to Old High German māsca (“mesh”), Old Saxon maska (“net”), Old Norse mǫskvi, mǫskun (“mesh”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA