grid

      See also GRID

      English

      A curvilinear grid.
      Grid in a triode.
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      Etymology

      From a shortening of griddle or gridiron

      Pronunciation

      Noun

      grid (plural grids)

      1. A rectangular array of squares or rectangles of equal size, such as in a crossword puzzle.
      2. A system for delivery of electricity, consisting of various substations, transformers and generators, connected by wire.
        You can't turn off the building from here; you have to shut down the whole grid. — line from the motion picture Die Hard
      3. (computing) A system or structure of distributed computers working mostly on a peer-to-peer basis, such structures being known as a computational grid or simply grid computing, and used mainly to solve single and complex scientific or technical problems or to process data at high speeds (as in clusters).
      4. (cartography) A method of marking off maps into areas.
      5. (motor racing) The pattern of starting positions of the drivers for a race.
      6. (electronics) The third (or higher) electrode of a vacuum tube (triode or higher).

      Derived terms

      Terms derived from grid (noun)
      • grid point

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      Translations

      rectangular array of squares or rectangles of equal size
      electricity delivery system
      in computing
      method of marking off maps
      electrode of a vacuum tube

      Verb

      grid (third-person singular simple present grids, present participle gridding, simple past and past participle gridded)

      1. To mark with a grid.
      2. To assign a reference grid to.

      Translations

      to mark with

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      Romanization

      grid

      1. See 𐌲𐍂𐌹𐌳
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