spidering

/S P AY1 D ER0 IH0 NG/
verb
  1. 1

    To move like a spider.

  2. 2

    To cover a surface like a cobweb.

  3. 3

    (of a computer program) To follow links on the World Wide Web in order to gather information.

    “The online dictionary is regularly spidered by search engines.”

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Source: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/spider, https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/spidering

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