1
: grating
2
a(1)
: a perforated or ridged metal plate used as a conductor in a storage battery
(2)
: an electrode consisting of a mesh or a spiral of fine wire in an electron tube
(3)
: a network of conductors for distribution of electric power
also
: a network of radio or television stations
b
: a network of uniformly spaced horizontal and perpendicular lines (as for locating points on a map)
also
: something resembling such a network
a road grid
c
: gridiron sense 3
broadly
: football
3
: the starting positions of cars on a racecourse
4
: a device in a photocomposer on which are located the characters to be exposed as the text is composed
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The students plotted points on a grid.
The city streets form a grid.
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Dawn Shirreffs, Orlando Sentinel, 6 Mar. 2025
Doing a quarterly grid cleanup where social media posts that are no longer relevant are archived clears space for people to receive the new social media marketing content.
—Expert Panel®, Forbes, 5 Mar. 2025
The electricity from Ontario goes through Michigan and into several other states that together make up the Eastern Interconnection, which is an electrical grid that stretches from central Canada to states east of the Rocky Mountains, according to Scripps.
—Jonathan Limehouse, USA TODAY, 5 Mar. 2025
Park officials continued the search over the past year and ultimately found his body on Feb. 28 in the original search area during an off-trail grid search using a human remains detection dog, officials said.
—Brooke Baitinger, Idaho Statesman, 4 Mar. 2025
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“Grid.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/grid. Accessed 10 Mar. 2025.
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grid
noun1
2
: a metal plate used as a conductor in a storage battery
3
: an element of an electron tube consisting of a network of fine wire
4
: a network of horizontal and perpendicular lines (as for locating points on a map using coordinates or for counting a sample of particles or organisms on a microscope slide)
5
: a network of conductors for distribution of electrical power
also
: a network of radio or television stations
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