Several fields use or develop the idea of a grid:

Arrays of squares or rectangles

• Grid plan, a city plan in which streets run at right angles to form a grid of city blocks
• Grid view or datagrid, a graphical-user-interface element that presents a tabular view of data
• Grid graph, in graph theory
• Grid (typography), laying out of a page using a grid of different-sized and -shaped rectangles
• Grid (spatial index), a method for organizing information: for example in a database

In science, mathematics and technology

• Mesh (mathematics) or a regular grid or unstructured grid
  • Cartesian grid
  • rectilinear grid
  • curvilinear grid
  • structured grid
• Electric power transmission, a long-distance high-voltage network for power transmission, also known as the:
  • transmission grid or
  • the electrical grid
  • Smart Grid, an upgraded power grid
• In computing:
  • grid computing, an example of distributed computing
  • World Community Grid, a platform for distributed computing projects (an example of grid computing)
  • Grid (computer manufacturer), a maker of laptop computers in the 1980s
  • LHC Computing Grid, a distribution network designed by CERN to handle the massive amounts of data produced by the Large Hadron Collider.
• In vacuum-tube technology:
  • control grid
  • screen grid
  • suppressor grid

Places

• Grid, Bra?ov, a village in Pârâu Commune, Bra?ov County, Romania
• Grid, Hunedoara, a village in the town of C?lan, Hunedoara County, Romania

In popular culture

• The Grid, a late eighties/early nineties electronic dance group
• The Grid (arcade game), an arcade game released in 2001
• The Grid (TV series), a television series produced in 2004
• Grid (album), the eighth original album by the Japanese band M.O.V.E
• Race Driver: GRID, a racing video game

Other uses

• Grid (Jotun), a giantess in Norse mythology

Acronym usage

• BioGRID, a database of biological interactions hosted at Mount Sinai Hospital in Toronto, Canada
• Gay related immune deficiency (GRID), a name used for AIDS until 1982
• Global Release Identifier (GRid)
• Group for Rural India Development (GRID)
• GRID, the short-hand name for an ESRI GRID file

Synonyms

• Mesh
• Lattice

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