1. A pattern of regularly spaced horizontal and vertical lines
   "The city was laid out in a perfect grid"
    
2. A system of high tension cables by which electrical power is distributed throughout a region
   "The storm caused widespread outages across the power grid";
   - power system, power grid
    
3. A cooking utensil of parallel metal bars; used to grill fish or meat
   "They placed the marinated steaks on the hot grid";
   - gridiron, grill
    
4. A perforated or corrugated metal plate used in a storage battery as a conductor and support for the active material
   "The storage-battery grid provides structure for the battery's chemical components";
   - storage-battery grid
    
5. An electrode placed between the cathode and anode of a vacuum tube to control the flow of electrons through the tube
   "The control grid regulates the current in the vacuum tube";
   - control grid
    
6. (cartography) a method of marking off maps into areas
   "The search area was divided using a grid system"

1. Mark with or put into a grid
   "They gridded the archaeological site before beginning the excavation"

Derived forms: grids, griding, grided

Type of: cooking utensil, cookware, electrode, facility, form, installation, pattern, plate, shape

Part of: accumulator, base, electron tube, infrastructure, storage battery, thermionic tube, thermionic vacuum tube, thermionic valve, tube, vacuum tube

Encyclopedia: Grid