Grid

Grid, The Grid, or GRID may refer to:

Common usage
  • Cattle grid or stock grid, a type of obstacle is used to prevent livestock from crossing the road
  • Grid reference, used to define a location on a map

Arts, entertainment, and media
  • News grid, used in communications/public relations

Fictional entities
  • Grid (comics), a fictional character in the DC Comics Universe
  • Grid (Jotun), Gríðr, a giantess in Norse mythology
  • The grid, the virtual environment of the game Second Life
  • The Grid, the computerized virtual world in which the Tron franchise exists

Games and gaming
  • Nvidia GRID, a cloud gaming platform for Nvidia Tegra products
  • Power Grid, the English-language edition of the multiplayer German-style board game Funkenschlag
  • Race Driver: Grid, a racing video game and its sequels:
  • Spooks 3 Games - The Grid, a video game based on the television show Spooks
  • The Grid (arcade game), a 2001 third-person shooter

Music

Periodicals
  • IEEE Grid, a monthly publication of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
  • The Grid (newspaper), a former alternative weekly newspaper in Toronto, Ontario

Sports

Television
  • The Grid (miniseries), from 2004, aired on TNT
  • "The Grid" (The Outer Limits), an episode of the science fiction series, 2000
  • The Grid (US TV series), an American TV series, on IFC
  • Mobil 1 The Grid, a motorsport magazine TV show, on Channel 4

Design and planning
  • Grid (graphic design) or typographic grid, organized lines for guiding graphic design
  • Grid paper, or graph paper, the writing paper that is printed with fine lines making up a regular grid
  • Grid plan, a method of city and regional planning in which streets and administrative units are arranged at right angles
  • Managerial grid model, a behavioral leadership model
  • Tension grid, an area of a theatre
  • CSS grid layout, a CSS layout that works well with Flexbox

Place names
  • Grid, a village administered by Călan town, Hunedoara County, Romania
  • Grid, a village in Părău Commune, Braşov County, Romania
  • Grid, a tributary of the river Valea Luncanilor in Hunedoara County, Romania
  • Grid, a tributary of the river Părău in Brașov County, Romania

Science and technology
  • Control grid, an electrode to control electrons in vacuum tubes
  • Electrical grid, a network for delivering electricity
  • Screen grid, a grid used in vacuum tubes to reduce capacitance
  • Suppressor grid, a grid used in vacuum tubes to suppress secondary emission

Biology and healthcare

Computing
  • GRID, Global Research Identifier Database ID (grid), an openly-available, persistent ID for research institutions worldwide, providing linked metadata, created and updated by Digital Science
  • Grid computing, the application of a network of computers to a single problem
  • Computation grid, or mesh, the outcome of using principles of grid generation to divide a complex shape into simple cells for simulations or computer graphics
  • Data grid, middleware services that pull together data and resources from multiple domains
  • Esri grid, a file format for geographic information systems
  • Grid view, a graphical control element (software widget) that presents a tabular view of data

Mathematics
  • GRID (geometry) (Great Rhomb-Icosi-Dodecahedron) or truncated icosidodecahedron
  • Grid (spatial index), the information-organizing scheme
  • Lattice graph or "grid graph", a graph formed from a regular lattice of vertices
  • Regular grid, a tessellation of Euclidean space

Software
  • Grid, ehf., a web-based productivity tool for working with spreadsheets

Other uses

See also
  • All pages with titles beginning with Grid
  • All pages with titles containing Grid
  • All pages with titles beginning with The Grid
  • All pages with titles containing The Grid
  • Mesh (disambiguation)
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