grid

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English [edit]

A curvilinear grid.
Grid in a triode.
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Etymology [edit]

From a shortening of griddle or gridiron

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Noun [edit]

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).

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Translations [edit]

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 [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.

Translations [edit]

to mark with

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Romanization [edit]

grid

  1. See 𐌲𐍂𐌹𐌳
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