Phrase Hound found 40 phrases and 50 compound words that contain grid. The most common are listed below. Open grid in the live search for definitions, filters, and the full list.
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- off the gridOf a home, business, or the occupants thereof, not using electricity from the public electrical supply system.
- power gridThe infrastructure for distributing electrical power throughout a region.
- cattle gridA grid of parallel metal bars set into a road as an obstacle to prevent hooved animals from passing.
- Grid-computing
- grid referenceThe point or area on a map described by the numbers or letters indicated.
- grid northThe direction northwards along the grid lines of a map projection. The grid north for a particular map is usually chosen so that it deviates very little from the true north.
- national gridAn electricity transmission network servicing a whole country.
- off-gridSynonym of off the grid: Of a home, business, or the occupants thereof, not using electricity from the public electrical supply system.
- grid electricityElectric energy delivered to a consumer from the public electricity network.
- grid pointsplural of grid point: Any point in the Cartesian plane with integer coordinates.
- grid girlA hostess at a motor racing event.
- grid methodA visual approach to the multiplication of polynomials through the use of a grid-like structure to represent the multiplicand terms
- grid planA type of city plan in which streets run at right angles to each other, forming a grid.
- smart gridA computerized power grid which gathers and analyzes information from users to determine the most efficient and reliable operation of electricity distribution
- control gridAn electrode used in amplifying thermionic valves (vacuum tubes) such as the triode, tetrode and pentode, used to control the flow of electrons from the cathode to the anode. It usually consists of a cylindrical screen or helix of fine …
- electric gridSynonym of power grid: The infrastructure for distributing electrical power throughout a region.
- grid cellA form of neuron associated with an organism's perception of spatial position
- grid cellsplural of grid cell: A form of neuron associated with an organism's perception of spatial position
- grid girlsplural of grid girl: A hostess at a motor racing event.
- grid paperSheets of paper with an outline grid of lines used for plotting graphs.
- grid referencesplural of grid reference: The point or area on a map described by the numbers or letters indicated.
- grid roadA road that follows the one-mile section grid established by government land survey.
- grid squareAlternative form of gridsquare: A square on a two-dimensional grid
- regular grida tessellation of Euclidean space into congruent rectangles, parallelograms, cuboids, or more generally, parallelotopes
- starting gridThe part of the track on which the vehicles line up in order, according to their performance in qualifying.
Compound words 50
- gridlockA condition of total, interlocking traffic congestion on the streets or highways of a crowded city, in which no one can move because everyone is in someone else's way.
- gridironAn instrument of torture on which people were secured before being burned by fire.
- multigridA class of techniques for solving algebraic or differential equations that employs a hierarchy of discretizations
- griddlerA pancake, especially a savory one.
- subgridDescribing any parameter measured on a scale smaller than the grid used to plot it
- gridworkWork in the form of a grid.
- gridpointAny point in the Cartesian plane with integer coordinates.
- geogridA grid of geosynthetic material used to reinforce soil and other materials.
- supergridA wide-area transmission network that makes it possible to trade high volumes of electricity across great distances.
- icosagridAn icosahedral grid