English
grid
see also: GRID
Pronunciation 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.
  10. (theatre, television) An openwork ceiling above the stage or studio, used for affixing lights etc.
Translations Translations Translations Translations Translations Verb

grid (grids, present participle gridding; simple past and past participle gridded)

  1. To mark with a grid.
  2. To assign a reference grid to.
  3. (education) To enter in a grid.
    On the SAT, to answer a grid-in question, you grid in your answer by filling out the ovals.
Translations
GRID
Noun

grid (uncountable)

  1. (disease, dated) Acronym of gay-related immunodeficiency [Used in the early 1980s.]


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