grid

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Contents 1 English 1.1 Etymology 1.2 Pronunciation 1.3 Noun 1.3.1 Derived terms 1.3.2 Related terms 1.3.3 See also 1.3.4 Translations 1.4 Verb 1.4.1 Translations 1.5 External links

[edit] English

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[edit] Etymology

From a shortening of griddle or gridiron

[edit] Pronunciation

• IPA: /gɹɪd/
• Rhymes: -ɪd

[edit] 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.

[edit] Derived terms

• gridlock
• grid reference
• national grid
• numerical grid

[edit] Related terms

• griddle
• gridiron

[edit] See also

• square
• rectangle
• lattice
• reticulum

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[edit] Verb

to 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.

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[edit] External links

• grid in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
• grid in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911