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Grid   /grɪd/   Listen
noun
Grid  n.  
1.
A grating of thin parallel bars, similar to a gridiron.
2.
(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.
3.
(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.
4.
Any network of crossing horizontal and vertical lines; they are used, for example, as reference coordinates to locate objects or places on a map.
5.
Anything resembling a grid (4), as the Manhattan street grid. See also gridlock.
6.
A network of connected conductors for distributing electrical power, especially one using high-tension lines for wide geographic distribution of power; as, the Northeast power grid.
7.
(Football) The gridiron.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Grid" Quotes from Famous Books



... ago the grid of her stove broke and today she had taken it to be mended; she had been to the smith's and now she could not get out of her mind what she had seen there: a black cave, like an oven, down three steps; a dark hole hung and filled on ...
— The Path of Life • Stijn Streuvels

... to its last day, Like a lost sovereign, runaway, Tips down the gloomy grid of time: In vain to holloa, 'Stop it! hey!'— A cab-horse that has taken fright, Be you a policeman, stop you may; But not a sovereign mad with glee That scampers to the grid, perdie, And not a year that's taken flight; To both 'tis just ...
— Robert Louis Stevenson, an Elegy; And Other Poems • Richard Le Gallienne



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