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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.





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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


Words linked to "Grid" :   base, power cable, electric main, installation, grid metal, power line, power system, cookware, electrode, tube, control grid, thermionic valve, thermionic tube, thermionic vacuum tube, plate, shape, pattern, Amsler grid, electron tube


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