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Word: grid (lookup usage) (lookup stats)


Meaning:

abbreviation:

  • obsolete Gay-related immunodeficiency — former name of AIDS.

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Noun:

  • A rectangular array of squares or rectangles of equal size, such as in a crossword puzzle.
  • A system for delivery of electricity, consisting of various substations, transformers and generators, connected by wire.
  • cartography A method of marking off maps into areas.
  • computing A system or structure of distributed computers working mostly on a peer-to-peer basis, such structures being known as a computational grid or simply grid computing, and used mainly to solve single and complex scientific or technical problems or to process data at high speeds (as in clusters).

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Verb:

  • To assign a reference grid to.
  • To mark with a grid.

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