TL;DR
Welded wire mesh is a grid of steel wires resistance-welded at every intersection, supplied in sheets or rolls and laid into concrete slabs, driveways, and patios to hold shrinkage cracks tightly closed. The familiar residential size is 6x6 inch grid in W1.4 wire, placed in the upper middle third of the slab thickness on chairs or pulled up during the pour.
What it means
Welded wire mesh is a grid of steel wires resistance-welded at every intersection, supplied in sheets or rolls and laid into concrete slabs, driveways, and patios to hold shrinkage cracks tightly closed. The familiar residential size is 6x6 inch grid in W1.4 wire, placed in the upper middle third of the slab thickness on chairs or pulled up during the pour. Its honest limitation is that it controls crack width rather than adding strength, and mesh walked down to the bottom of the pour, where much of it ends up, does effectively nothing.
Where it sits in the glossary
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