grid
- (abbreviation) . (disease, obsolete) Gay-related immunodeficiency — former name of AIDS.
- Noun. A rectangular array of squares or rectangles of equal size, such as in a crossword puzzle.
- Noun. A system for delivery of electricity, consisting of various substations, transformers and generators, connected by wire.
- 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).
- Noun. (cartography) A method of marking off maps into areas.
- Verb. To mark with a grid.
- Verb. To assign a reference grid to.
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