grid

• POS: Noun

CIDE DICTIONARY

grid, n. 

•  A grating of thin parallel bars, similar to a gridiron.  [1913 Webster]
•  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.  [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
•  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.  [PJC]
•  any network of crossing horizontal and vertical lines; -- they are used, for example, as reference coordinates to locate objects or places on a map.  [PJC]
•  anything resembling a grid{4}, as the Manhattan street grid. See also gridlock.  [PJC]
•  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.  [PJC]
•  the gridiron.  [PJC]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

grid, n.
1 a framework of spaced parallel bars; a grating.
2 a system of numbered squares printed on a map and forming the basis of map references.
3 a network of lines, electric-power connections, gas-supply lines, etc.
4 a pattern of lines marking the starting-places on a motor-racing track.
5 the wire network between the filament and the anode of a thermionic valve etc.
6 an arrangement of town streets in a rectangular pattern.

Idiom

grid bias Electr. a fixed voltage applied between the cathode and the control grid of a thermionic valve which determines its operating conditions.

Derivative

gridded adj.

Etymology

back-form. f. GRIDIRON

THESAURUS

grid

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