Grid
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Grid or The Grid may refer to:
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Entertainment and media [edit]
- The Grid, an electronic dance group
- Kevorkian Death Cycle, a music group formerly called Grid
- The Grid (arcade game), a 2001 third person shooter
- The Grid (TV series) from 2004
- The Grid (US TV series), an American TV series
- Mobil 1 The Grid, a motorsport magazine TV show
- "The Grid" (The Outer Limits), an episode of the science fiction series
- Grid (album), the eighth original album by the Japanese band m.o.v.e.
- Race Driver: Grid, a racing video game
- Spooks 3 Games - The Grid, video game based on the television show Spooks
- The grid, the virtual environment of the game Second Life
- IEEE Grid, a monthly publication of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
- The Grid, the computerized virtual world in which the Tron franchise exists
- The Grid (newspaper), an alternative weekly newspaper in Toronto, Ontario
Science and technology [edit]
- Electrical grid, a network for delivering electricity
- Grid computing, the application of a network of computers to a single problem
- Control grid, an electrode to control electrons in vacuum tubes
- Screen grid, a grid used in vacuum tubes to reduce capacitance
- Suppressor grid, a grid used in vacuum tubes to suppress secondary emission
- GRiD Systems Corporation, founded in 1979, developer of range of laptops
- Grid Compass, the first laptop computer released in 1982
- Lattice graph or "grid graph", a graph formed from a regular lattice of vertices
- ESRI grid file format for geographic information systems
- GRID1, GRID2, human genes; Glutamate receptor, ionotropic delta 1 or 2
- Truncated icosidodecahedron, also known as the great rhombicosidodecahedron
Acronym [edit]
- Gay-related immune deficiency (GRID), an early suggested name for AIDS
- Global Release Identifier (GRid), a music industry identifier from the RIAA and IFPI
Geography [edit]
- Grid, a village in Părău Commune, Braşov County, Romania
- Grid, a village administered by Călan town, Hunedoara County, Romania
- Grid plan, a method of city and regional planning in which streets and administrative units are arranged at right angles
- Grid references, used to define locations on maps
Other uses [edit]
- Regular grid, a tessellation of Euclidean space
- Grid (graphic design), organized lines for guiding graphic design
- Grid (spatial index), information-organizing scheme
- Grid (Jotun), a giantess in Norse mythology
- Managerial grid model, a behavioral leadership model
- Starting grid, the positioning of vehicles for starting a motorsport race
- Gridiron football or "gridiron", a team-based sports game (the term "the grid" was also applied to the playing-field itself)
- Graph paper or "grid paper", writing paper that is printed with fine lines making up a regular grid
- Tension grid, an area of a theatre
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