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noun

Grid n.

A grating of thin parallel bars, similar to a gridiron.

(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.

(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.

Any network of crossing horizontal and vertical lines; they are used, for example, as reference coordinates to locate objects or places on a map.

Anything resembling a grid (4), as the Manhattan street grid. See also gridlock.

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.

(Football) The gridiron.

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Etymology of 'Grid'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Grid" Quotes from Famous Books

... its limitations, of course. Lonnie could see out, but the suit could also be seen. That required sometimes intricate advance planning to offset. Also, occasionally, manipulating the field of the grid to permit mechanical contact with the physical world was a trifle cumbersome but never annoyingly so. All it took was a modicum of step-by-step thought and some care not to leave a personal trace for the quantum analyzer to pick up. No actual trouble. And, finally, Moglaut ...

— Zero Data • Charles Saphro

... the petty economies and cares of a small establishment. She was superior only in those things where it gave her pleasure to be so. Feeling as keenly as she did the thorns of a position which can only be likened to that of Saint-Laurence on his grid-iron, is it any wonder that she sometimes cried out? So, in her paroxysms of thwarted ambition, in the moments when her wounded vanity gave her terrible shooting pains, Celestine turned upon Xavier Rabourdin. Was it not her husband's duty ...

— Bureaucracy • Honore de Balzac

... two good Lemmons, and slice them thin into the Mutton, when it is almost well stewed between two dishes, and so let them stew together two or three warmes, when they are enough, put them in a clean dish, and take the shoulder blade being well broyled on a grid-iron, and lay it upon your meat, garnishing your dishes with some slices and rinds of the Lemmons, and so ...

— A Book of Fruits and Flowers • Anonymous

... 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 a grim ...

— Robert Louis Stevenson, an Elegy; And Other Poems • Richard Le Gallienne

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