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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

1. Romanization of ????????????????

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

Etymology

From Japanese ???? (nurikabe, “an invisible wall in Japanese folklore that blocks roads and delays travel on foot”).

Noun

nurikabe (uncountable)

1. (games, puzzles) A Japanese logic puzzle with a rectangular grid of squares, some of them numbered; the solver is challenged to fill in a subset of squares (under certain constraints) such that each numbered square finally indicates the number of unfilled squares contiguous to it.