grid

  1. (abbreviation) .  (disease, obsolete) Gay-related immunodeficiency — former name of AIDS.
  2. Noun.  A rectangular array of squares or rectangles of equal size, such as in a crossword puzzle.
  3. Noun.  A system for delivery of electricity, consisting of various substations, transformers and generators, connected by wire.
  4. Noun.  (computing) A system or structure of distributed computers working mostly on a peer-to-peer basis, such structures being known as a computational grid or simply grid computing, and used mainly to solve single and complex scientific or technical problems or to process data at high speeds (as in clusters).
  5. Noun.  (cartography) A method of marking off maps into areas.
  6. Verb.  To mark with a grid.
  7. Verb.  To assign a reference grid to.

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