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:
- Grid 2, a 2013 video game
- Grid Autosport, a 2014 video game
- Grid (2019 video game)
- Grid (series), the series of games
Spooks 3 Games - The Grid, a video game based on the television show Spooks
The Grid (arcade game), a 2001 third-person shooter

Music

Grid (album), the eighth original album by the Japanese band m.o.v.e., 2006
GRid, Global Release Identifier (GRid), a music industry identifier from the RIAA and IFPI
Kevorkian Death Cycle, a music group formerly called Grid
The Grid (band), a 1990s electronic dance group, from London
"The Grid", a song by To My Boy

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

Gridiron football or "gridiron", a team-based sports game ("the grid" also refers to the playing-field)
- National Pro Grid League, a professional co-ed athletic team competition
Starting grid, the positioning of vehicles for starting a motorsport race

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

Gay-related immune deficiency, or GRID, an early suggested name for AIDS
GRID1, a human gene
GRID2, a human gene

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

Firebird Grid, a German paraglider design
Grid Systems Corporation, the developer of historic laptops, founded in 1979

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