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grid

See also: GRID and grið

English edit

 
(1) A rectangular array of squares or rectangles of equal size
 
Grid in a triode.

Etymology edit

Back-formation or clipping of griddle or gridiron.

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): /ɡɹɪd/
  • Audio (Southern England)(file)
  • Hyphenation: grid
  • Rhymes: -ɪd

Noun edit

grid (plural grids)

  1. A rectangular array of squares or rectangles of equal size, such as in a crossword puzzle.
  2. A tiling of the plane with regular polygons; a honeycomb.
  3. A system for delivery of electricity, consisting of various substations, transformers and generators, connected by wire.
    • 1988, Die Hard (movie)
      You can't turn off the building from here; you have to shut down the whole grid.
    • 2013 July 20, “Out of the gloom”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8845:
      [Rural solar plant] schemes are of little help to industry or other heavy users of electricity. Nor is solar power yet as cheap as the grid. For all that, the rapid arrival of electric light to Indian villages is long overdue. When the national grid suffers its next huge outage, as it did in July 2012 when hundreds of millions were left in the dark, look for specks of light in the villages.
  4. (computing) A system or structure of distributed computers working mostly on a peer-to-peer basis, used mainly to solve single and complex scientific or technical problems or to process data at high speeds (as in clusters).
  5. (cartography) A method of marking off maps into areas.
  6. (motor racing) The pattern of starting positions of the drivers for a race.
  7. (electronics) The third (or higher) electrode of a vacuum tube (triode or higher).
  8. (electricity) A battery-plate somewhat like a grating, especially a zinc plate in a primary battery, or a lead plate in a secondary or storage battery.
  9. A grating of parallel bars; a gridiron.
  10. (theater, television) An openwork ceiling above the stage or studio, used for affixing lights etc.
    • 2018, Maggie Harcourt, Theatrical:
      Everything on the grid – all the backdrops and curtains, anything that has to move up and down from the fly-tower – has to be counterweighted.

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Translations edit

grating of parallel bars; a gridiron — see gridiron

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Verb edit

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.
  3. (education) To enter in a grid.
    On the SAT, to answer a grid-in question, you grid in your answer by filling out the ovals.

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Romanization edit

grid

  1. Romanization of 𐌲𐍂𐌹𐌳

Portuguese edit

Pronunciation edit

 
  • (Brazil) IPA(key): /ˈɡɾi.d͡ʒi/, /ˈɡɾid͡ʒ/
    • (Southern Brazil) IPA(key): /ˈɡɾid͡ʒ/, /ˈɡɾi.d͡ʒi/

Noun edit

grid m (plural grids)

  1. (computing) grid (system distributed computers)
  2. (motor racing) grid (starting positions of the drivers for a race)

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Welsh edit

Etymology edit

Borrowed from English grid.

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

grid m (plural gridiau)

  1. a grid

Mutation edit

Welsh mutation
radical soft nasal aspirate
grid rid ngrid unchanged
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References edit

  • R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present), “grid”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies
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