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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Matthew Robinson, MSNBC Newsweek, 26 Nov. 2025
But the several-hundred-foot extension cord that delivered power to it from the commercial grid was in ashes.
—Cheri Mossburg, CNN Money, 26 Nov. 2025
Traditional electrical grids are increasingly unable to support the dense, high-performance computing clusters required for AI workloads.
—Aman Tripathi, Interesting Engineering, 26 Nov. 2025
Top priorities for these challenges include breakthroughs in fusion energy, advanced nuclear reactors, electric-grid modernization, new materials, quantum computing and lifesaving medicines, according to a DOE webpage.
—Deni Ellis Béchard, Scientific American, 25 Nov. 2025
See All Example Sentences for grid
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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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