Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A framework of crisscrossed or parallel bars; a grating or mesh.
- noun A cooking surface of parallel metal bars; a gridiron.
- noun Something resembling a framework of crisscrossed parallel bars, as in rigidity or organization.
- noun A pattern of regularly spaced horizontal and vertical lines forming squares on a map, a chart, an aerial photograph, or an optical device, used as a reference for locating points.
- noun An interconnected system for the distribution of electricity or electromagnetic signals over a wide area, especially a network of high-tension cables and power stations.
- noun A corrugated or perforated conducting plate in a storage battery.
- noun Football The gridiron.
- noun Sports The starting positions of cars on a racecourse.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A name applied to a particular arrangement of members in which a number of narrow, parallel members lying in one plane are fastened at their ends to two heavier parallel members perpendicular to the others.
- noun A grating or openwork cover for a
- noun A heavy framing of timbers used to support a ship in a dock.
- noun In electricity, a zinc element in a primary battery, shaped like a grating or gridiron; the lead plate of a secondary or storage battery, consisting of a framework of bars crossing one another at right angles, into the openings of which the active matter of the plate is forced; also, a grating of ebonite used to prevent contact between battery-plates.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A grating of thin parallel bars, similar to a gridiron.
- noun (Elec.) A plate or sheet of lead with perforations, or other irregularities of surface, by which the active material of a secondary battery or accumulator is supported.
- noun (Electronics) a mesh or coil of fine wire in an electron tube, connected to the circuit so as to regulate the current passing through the tube.
- noun any network of crossing horizontal and vertical lines; -- they are used, for example, as reference coordinates to locate objects or places on a map.
- noun anything resembling a grid{4}, as the Manhattan street
grid . See alsogridlock . - noun a network of connected conductors for distributing electrical power, especially one using high-tension lines for wide geographic distribution of power.
- noun (Football) the
gridiron .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A rectangular
array of squares or rectangles of equal size, such as in acrossword puzzle. - noun A system for delivery of electricity, consisting of various substations, transformers and generators, connected by wire.
- noun computing A system or structure of
distributed computers working mostly on apeer-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). - noun cartography A method of
marking offmaps into areas. - noun motor racing The
pattern of starting positions of the drivers for a race. - verb To
mark with a grid. - verb To assign a
reference grid to.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun an electrode placed between the cathode and anode of a vacuum tube to control the flow of electrons through the tube
- noun a system of high tension cables by which electrical power is distributed throughout a region
- noun a cooking utensil of parallel metal bars; used to grill fish or meat
- noun a perforated or corrugated metal plate used in a storage battery as a conductor and support for the active material
- noun a pattern of regularly spaced horizontal and vertical lines
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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The term grid computing originated in the early 1990s as a metaphor for making computer power as easy to access as an electric power grid in Ian Foster's and Carl Kesselman's seminal work,
Webwereld 2010
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Solar panels across the desserts with efficient high power lines to get it on the grid is a cheaper option.
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In practice, however, the grid is an interstate concern.
Matthew Yglesias » An Electrical Grid We Can Believe In 2009
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Cross bridge and go to where the grid is across the stream and get bottle.
Archive 2007-11-01 2007
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This sequence of numbers representing the height of the surface at each point on the grid is then rendered by the computer to look like a three-dimensional solid.
August 2007 2007
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The limiting factor for the grid is the fact that “private” power companies have no incentive to upgrade or increase capacity.
Oil « BuzzMachine 2005
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We're concentrating on a more thorough search, what we call a grid search where we put people at closer spacing, work slower.
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It's not that the grid is antiquated; it's that our demand for energy is insatiable.
Boing Boing: September 14, 2003 - September 20, 2003 Archives 2003
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They will figure out an area, about 150 to 250 square miles, and they will just go line by line, go down what they call a grid search, just hoping for something.
CNN Transcript - Breaking News: U.S. Military Searching for Missing Cuban Plane - September 19, 2000 2000
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They are going to do what they call a grid search right off the coast of Key West, in between Key West and Cuba.
CNN Transcript - Breaking News: U.S. Military Searching for Missing Cuban Plane - September 19, 2000 2000
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