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grid

About 11.11 uses per million words.

Meaning

  1. noun A rectangular array of squares or rectangles of equal size, such as in a crossword puzzle.
  2. noun A tiling of the plane with regular polygons; a honeycomb.
  3. noun A system for delivery of electricity, consisting of various substations, transformers and generators, connected by wire.
  4. noun A system or structure of distributed computers working mostly on a peer-to-peer basis, used mainly to solve single and complex scientific or technical problems or to process data at high speeds (as in clusters).
  5. noun A method of marking off maps into areas.
  6. noun The pattern of starting positions of the drivers for a race.
  7. noun The third (or higher) electrode of a vacuum tube (triode or higher).
  8. noun A battery-plate somewhat like a grating, especially a zinc plate in a primary battery, or a lead plate in a secondary or storage battery.

Similar words

gridiron control grid power grid power system reference grid crossword card bars parcel rack

Often followed by

of is and points voltage to in system lines

Word family

grids

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