Phrase Hound found 13 phrases and 11 compound words that contain grids. The most common are listed below. Open grids in the live search for definitions, filters, and the full list.
Phrases 13
- power gridsplural of power grid: The infrastructure for distributing electrical power throughout a region.
- smart gridsplural of smart grid: A computerized power grid which gathers and analyzes information from users to determine the most efficient and reliable operation of electricity distribution
- cattle gridsplural of cattle grid: A grid of parallel metal bars set into a road as an obstacle to prevent hooved animals from passing.
- control gridsplural of control grid: An 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 …
- electric gridsplural of electric grid: The infrastructure for distributing electrical power throughout a region.
- national gridsplural of national grid: An electricity transmission network servicing a whole country.
- progressive gridsplural of progressive grid: A starting grid where competitors are positioned according to the finishing order of a previous race.
- regular gridsplural of regular grid: a tessellation of Euclidean space into congruent rectangles, parallelograms, cuboids, or more generally, parallelotopes
- starting gridsplural of starting grid: The part of the track on which the vehicles line up in order, according to their performance in qualifying.
- Hermann gridsplural of Hermann grid: An optical illusion where ghostly grey blobs are perceived at the intersections of a light-coloured grid on a black background.
- Cartesian gridsplural of Cartesian grid: a regular grid consisting of squares, cubes, or more generally unit hypercubes
- time-space gridsplural of time-space grid: The combination of a geographical area divided into equal sectors and a regular time interval.
- Dürer gridsplural of Dürer grid: A frame containing a grid of threads, designed to partition an image into segments to aid in perspective drawing.
Compound words 11
- geogridsplural of geogrid: A grid of geosynthetic material used to reinforce soil and other materials.
- congridsplural of congrid: Any eel of the family Congridae.
- diagridsplural of diagrid: A structure, used by some buildings, which is made up of triangles formed from beams of steel or sometimes other materials.
- isogridsplural of isogrid: A partially hollowed-out structure formed usually from a single metal plate (or face sheet) with triangular integral stiffening ribs, and used in aerospace applications.
- microgridsplural of microgrid: A very small grid, especially a small power supply grid containing distributed generation of electricity.
- minigridsplural of minigrid: A small electricity distribution network.
- orthogridsplural of orthogrid: A structure similar to an isogrid but having rectangular rather than triangular openings.
- pentagridsplural of pentagrid: A tiling of the hyperbolic plane with regular pentagons
- smartgridsplural of smartgrid: A computerized power grid which gathers and analyzes information from users to determine the most efficient and reliable operation of electricity distribution
- subgridsplural of subgrid: Describing any parameter measured on a scale smaller than the grid used to plot it