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  Grid may refer to:

In entertainment and media:
  • The Grid (arcade game)
    The Grid (arcade game)

    The Grid is a 2001 arcade game by Midway Games. It is a third person shooter in the form of a super-violent television game show hosted by a Smash TV-like host....
  • The Grid (TV series)
    The Grid (TV series)

    The Grid is a 2004 in television television miniseries co-produced by the BBC, Fox Television Studios and Carnival Films. It starred Dylan McDermott and Julianna Margulies....
  • Grid (album)
    GRID (album)

    GRID, released on January 25 2006, is the eighth original album by the Japanese band m.o.v.e. The catalogue code for this album is AVCT-10156/B with a bonus DVD, and AVCT-10157 without one....
    , the eighth original album by the Japanese band m.o.v.e.
  • Race Driver: GRID
    Race Driver: GRID

    Race Driver: Grid is the latest addition to the TOCA Touring Car series by Codemasters, published and developed by the same company. It was announced on April 19, 2007, and is available for the PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, Nintendo DS and Personal computer....
    , a racing video game
  • lighting grid, a ceiling structure in a television studio
    Television studio

    A television studio is an installation in which television or video productions take place, either for live television, for recording live to tape, or for the acquisition of raw footage for postproduction....


In science and technology:
  • LHC Computing Grid
    LHC Computing Grid

    The LHC Computing Grid, launched on October 3, 2008, is a distribution network designed by CERN to handle the massive amounts of data produced by the Large Hadron Collider ....
    , a distributed network to handle data produced by the Large Hadron Collider
  • Grid (electricity)
    Grid (electricity)

    An electrical grid is an interconnected network for delivering electricity from suppliers to consumers....
    , a network for delivering electricity
  • Control grid
    Control grid

    The control grid is an electrode used in vacuum tube used to modulate the flow of electrons in the cathode to anode or plate electrode circuit....
    , an electrode to control electrons in vacuum tubes
  • Screen grid
    Screen grid

    The screen grid is a grid introduced into a vacuum tube to greatly reduce the capacitance between two other parts of the electrode structure....
    , a grid used in vacuum tubes to reduce capacitance
  • Suppressor grid
    Suppressor grid

    A suppressor grid is a grid used in a thermionic valve to suppress secondary emission. A suppressor grid is also called the antidynatron grid, as it helps to reduce the dynatron effect....
    , a grid used in vacuum tubes to suppress secondary emission
  • Grid Compass
    GRiD Compass

    The Grid Compass 1100 was arguably the first laptop computer, introduced in April 1982.The computer was designed by United Kingdom industrial designer Bill Moggridge in 1979, and first sold three years later....
    , a laptop computer released in 1982
  • In mathematics, a grid graph is another name for a lattice graph
    Lattice graph

    The terms lattice graph, mesh graph, or grid graph refer to a number of categories of graph s graph drawing corresponds to some grid/mesh/lattice, i.e., its vertices correspond to the nodes of the mesh and its edges correspond to the ties between the nodes....
  • Grid squares or locators are used by amateur radio operators with the Maidenhead Locator System
    Maidenhead Locator System

    The Maidenhead Locator System is a geographic coordinate system used by amateur radio operators. Dr. John Morris, G4ANB, originally devised the system, and a group of VHF managers, meeting in Maidenhead, England in 1980, adopted it....


In acronyms:
  • Gay related immune deficiency (GRID), an early suggested name for AIDS
  • Global Release Identifier
    Global Release Identifier

    The Global Release Identifier is a system to identify Music releases of digital sound recordings for electronic Record distributor. It is designed to be integrated with identification systems deployed by key stakeholder s from across the music industry....
     (GRid), a music industry identifier from the RIAA and IFPI
  • GRID, ESRI grid
    ESRI grid

    An ESRI grid is a Raster graphics GIS file formats developed by ESRI, which has two formats:#A proprietary binary file format, also known as an ARC/INFO GRID, ARC GRID and many other variations...
     file


Other uses

  • Grid (typography)
    Grid (typography)

    A typographic grid is a two-dimensional structure made up of a series of intersecting vertical and horizontal axes used to structure content....
    , page-layout scheme
  • Grid (spatial index)
    Grid (spatial index)

    In the context of a spatial index, a grid is a regular tessellation of a manifold or 2-D surface that divides it into a series of contiguous cells, which can then be assigned unique identifiers and used for spatial indexing purposes....
    , information-organizing scheme
  • Grid, Brasov, a village in Romania
  • The Grid
    The Grid

    The Grid are an English electronic dance music group, consisting of Richard Norris and David Ball , with guest contributions from other musicians....
    , dance ensemble
  • Grid (Jotun)
    Grid (Jotun)

    In Norse mythology, Gr??r is female j?tunn who, aware of Loki's plans to have Thor killed at the hands of the giant Geirr?d, helped Thor by supplying him with a number of magical gifts which included , a pair of J?rngreipr, and a staff known as Gr?darv?l....
    , a giantess in Norse mythology


See also

  • Grid computing
    Grid computing

    Grid computing is the application of several computers to a single problem at the same time -- usually to a scientific or technical problem that requires a great number of computer processing cycles or access to large amounts of data....
  • The Grid (disambiguation)
    The Grid (disambiguation)

    The Grid is an electronic dance group.The Grid may also refer to:* The Grid , a 2001 third person shooter* The Grid , a 2004 miniseries...