grid

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English

Etymology

Back-formation or clipping of griddle or gridiron.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɡɹɪd/
• Hyphenation: grid
• Rhymes: -ɪd

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. (theater, television) An openwork ceiling above the stage or studio, used for affixing lights etc.

Hyponyms

• national grid
• numerical grid
• supergrid

Derived 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.
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

Further reading

• “grid”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• “grid”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.

Anagrams

• gird

Gothic

Romanization

grid

1. Romanization of 𐌲𐍂𐌹𐌳

Portuguese

Pronunciation

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

Welsh

Etymology

Borrowed from English grid.

Pronunciation

• (North Wales) IPA^(key): /ˈɡrɪd/
• (South Wales) IPA^(key): /ˈɡrid/

Noun

grid m (plural gridiau)

1. a grid

Mutation

References

• R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present), “grid”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies