grid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡɹɪd/
rhymes: -ɪd
Forms: form: grids
Etymology: Back-formation or clipping of griddle or gridiron.
Senses: glosses: A rectangular array of squares or rectangles of equal size, such as in a crossword puzzle.
glosses: A tiling of the plane with regular polygons; a honeycomb.
examples: text: You can't turn off the building from here; you have to shut down the whole grid.
ref: 1988, Die Hard (movie)
text: [Rural solar plant] schemes are of little help to industry or other heavy users of electricity. Nor is solar power yet as cheap as the grid. For all that, the rapid arrival of electric light to Indian villages is long overdue. When the national grid suffers its next huge outage, as it did in July 2012 when hundreds of millions were left in the dark, look for specks of light in the villages.
ref: 2013 July 20, “Out of the gloom”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8845:
glosses: A system for delivery of electricity, consisting of various substations, transformers and generators, connected by wire.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: 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).
topics: cartography
geography
natural-sciences
glosses: A method of marking off maps into areas.
examples: text: McLaren's Lewis Hamilton fought up from the back of the grid to eighth, with team-mate Jenson Button taking ninth.
ref: 2012 May 13, Andrew Benson, “Williams's Pastor Maldonado takes landmark Spanish Grand Prix win”, in BBC Sport:
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
motor-racing
racing
sports
glosses: The pattern of starting positions of the drivers for a race.
topics: business
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
electronics
energy
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: The third (or higher) electrode of a vacuum tube (triode or higher).
topics: business
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
energy
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: 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.
examples: text: They camped that night at Dingo Creek, the fire Jim quickly made,
Put the Billy on the cross-piece, pitched the tent,
Brought a steak from 'neath the saddle-flap, and on the "grid" 'twas laid,
A piece of rusty fencing wire, well bent.
ref: 1897 October 10, The Truth, Sydney, page 8, column 3:
glosses: A grating of parallel bars; a gridiron.
examples: text: Everything on the grid – all the backdrops and curtains, anything that has to move up and down from the fly-tower – has to be counterweighted.
ref: 2018, Maggie Harcourt, Theatrical:
topics: broadcasting
entertainment
lifestyle
media
television
theater
glosses: An openwork ceiling above the stage or studio, used for affixing lights etc.
Hyponyms: national grid
numerical grid
supergrid
Derived terms: ball grid array
Cartesian grid
cattle grid
control grid
diagrid
dodecagrid
Dürer grid
electric grid
geogrid
gridable
grid butt
grid cell
gridder
griddler
griddy
grid electricity
grid girl
grid-in
gridiron
gridless
gridlike
gridline
grid-lined
gridlock
grid method
grid north
grid paper
grid plan
gridpoint
grid point
grid reference
grid road
grid square
gridwork
heptagrid
Hermann grid
icosagrid
isogrid
microgrid
minigrid
multigrid
off-grid
off the grid
off-the-grid
on the grid
orthogrid
pentagrid
power grid
regular grid
smart grid
starting grid
subgrid
supergrid
time-space grid
Related terms: grill
grille
lattice
rectangle
reticulum
square