grid
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English [edit]
Etymology [edit]
From a shortening of griddle or gridiron
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Noun [edit]
grid (plural grids)
- A rectangular array of squares or rectangles of equal size, such as in a crossword puzzle.
- 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
- (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).
- (cartography) A method of marking off maps into areas.
- (motor racing) The pattern of starting positions of the drivers for a race.
- 2012 May 13, Andrew Benson, “Williams's Pastor Maldonado takes landmark Spanish Grand Prix win”, BBC Sport:
- McLaren's Lewis Hamilton fought up from the back of the grid to eighth, with team-mate Jenson Button taking ninth.
- 2012 May 13, Andrew Benson, “Williams's Pastor Maldonado takes landmark Spanish Grand Prix win”, BBC Sport:
- (electronics) The third (or higher) electrode of a vacuum tube (triode or higher).
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Translations [edit]
rectangular array of squares or rectangles of equal size
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electricity delivery system
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in computing
method of marking off maps
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Verb [edit]
grid (third-person singular simple present grids, present participle gridding, simple past and past participle gridded)
Translations [edit]
to mark with
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External links [edit]
- grid in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
- grid in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911
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Romanization [edit]
grid
- See 𐌲𐍂𐌹𐌳