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Grid

noun

A pattern of regularly spaced horizontal and vertical lines.

A system of high tension cables by which electrical power is distributed throughout a region. Synonyms: power grid, power system.

A perforated or corrugated metal plate used in a storage battery as a conductor and support for the active material. Synonym: storage-battery grid.

An electrode placed between the cathode and anode of a vacuum tube to control the flow of electrons through the tube. Synonym: control grid.

A cooking utensil of parallel metal bars; used to grill fish or meat. Synonym: gridiron.

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"Grid" Quotes from Famous Books

... "We'll cruise around in a grid pattern until we pick up some sort of reading, or until we spot something abnormal." He pointed ...

— The Players • Everett B. Cole

... and though it is true they make a bad mess of it, they at least try to build their own nest, and rear their own young with tender solicitude. The nest is usually so sparse and flimsy an affair that you can see through its coarse mesh of sticks from below, the fledglings lying as on a grid-iron or toaster; and it is, moreover, occasionally so much higher in the centre than at the sides that the chicks tumble out of bed and perish. Still, it is a beginning in the ...

— My Studio Neighbors • William Hamilton Gibson

... the Row—lay the athletic field, almost twelve acres in extent, bordered on the further side by a rising slope of forest. Here there were football grid-irons—three of them, as the six goals indicated—quarter-mile running-track, a baseball diamond and a dozen tennis courts. The diamond was most in evidence, for the grand-stand stood behind the plate and the base paths, bare ...

— Left Tackle Thayer • Ralph Henry Barbour