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English

Etymology

From a shortening of griddle or gridiron.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???d/
• Hyphenation: grid
• Rhymes: -?d

Noun

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.
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.

Hyponyms

• national grid
• numerical grid
• supergrid

Derived terms

• gridlock
• supergrid

Related terms

Translations

See also

References

• grid on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

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

Further reading

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

Anagrams

• gird

Gothic

Romanization

grid

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Portuguese

Noun

grid m (plural grids)

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

Synonyms

• starting positions of racers grid de largada

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???dz/

Noun

grids

1. plural of grid

Verb

grids

1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of grid

Anagrams

• girds