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English
A curvilinear grid. Wikipedia has an article on: GridEtymology
From a shortening of griddle or gridiron
Pronunciation
Noun
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Singular grid |
Plural grids |
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.
Derived terms
- gridlock
- grid reference
- national grid
- numerical grid
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Verb
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Infinitive to grid |
Third person singular grids |
Simple past gridded |
Past participle gridded |
Present participle gridding |
to grid (third-person singular simple present grids, present participle gridding, simple past and past participle gridded)
Translations
to mark with
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External links
- 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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