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Grid or The Grid may refer to:
In entertainment and media:
- The Grid, an electronic dance group
- The Grid (arcade game), a 2001 third person shooter
- The Grid (TV series)
- "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
- lighting grid, a ceiling structure in a television studio
- The grid, the virtual environment of the game Second Life
- The Grid, a fictional Internet-like structure featured in The Who's 1970 science fiction rock opera Lifehouse (rock opera)
- The Grid, in the fictional TV series Spooks, is a term for the soundproof, surveillance-free offices of MI5's Section D
- IEEE Grid, a monthly publication of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
In science and technology:
- 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
- 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
In acronyms:
- Gay related immune deficiency (GRID), an early suggested name for AIDS
- Global Release Identifier (GRid), a music industry identifier from the RIAA and IFPI
Other uses
- Grid (typography), page-layout scheme
- 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
- Tension grid, an area of a theatre