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
Examples of grid in a Sentence
The students plotted points on a grid.
The city streets form a grid.
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Potential applications include managing renewable energy from solar and wind power, stabilizing electrical grids, and powering devices that need rapid, frequent charging cycles.
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Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 10 June 2026
Salt of the earth The V2G support and deployment to GM’s lineup is important, but for steady grid support, battery storage is the future.
—Roberto Baldwin, ArsTechnica, 10 June 2026
Vietnam is among dozens of nations worldwide racing to green their grids as both global energy prices and power demand rise.
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The students who practiced concentrating also improved on standardized tests of sustained attention, including those that tested their reaction times or their ability to spot target symbols hidden in a grid.
—Supreet Kaur, Scientific American, 10 June 2026
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Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 10 June 2026
Salt of the earth The V2G support and deployment to GM’s lineup is important, but for steady grid support, battery storage is the future.
—Roberto Baldwin, ArsTechnica, 10 June 2026
Vietnam is among dozens of nations worldwide racing to green their grids as both global energy prices and power demand rise.
—Jeronimo Gonzalez, semafor.com, 10 June 2026
The students who practiced concentrating also improved on standardized tests of sustained attention, including those that tested their reaction times or their ability to spot target symbols hidden in a grid.
—Supreet Kaur, Scientific American, 10 June 2026
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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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