Grid

Grid, The Grid or GRID may refer to:

Science and technology

• Electrical grid, a network for delivering electricity
• Control grid, an electrode to control electrons in vacuum tubes
• Screen grid, a grid used in vacuum tubes to reduce capacitance
• Suppressor grid, a grid used in vacuum tubes to suppress secondary emission
• Lattice graph or "grid graph", a graph formed from a regular lattice of vertices
• Gay-related immune deficiency, an early suggested name for AIDS
• Grid (geometry) (great rhomb-icosi-dodecahedron) or truncated icosidodecahedron
• Regular grid, a tessellation of Euclidean space

Computing

• Grid computing, the application of a network of computers to a single problem
• Grid view, a graphical control element (Software widget) that presents a tabular view of data
• Data grid, middleware services that pull together data and resources from multiple domains
• Grid (spatial index), information-organizing scheme
• Grid Systems Corporation, developer of range of historic laptops, founded in 1979
• Esri grid, a file format for geographic information systems
• Nvidia GRID, a cloud gaming platform for Nvidia Tegra products

Entertainment and media

• The Grid, an electronic dance group
• The Grid (arcade game), a 2001 third person shooter
• The Grid (TV series) from 2004
• The Grid (US TV series), an American TV series
• Mobil 1 The Grid, a motorsport magazine TV show
• "The Grid" (The Outer Limits), an episode of the science fiction series
• Race Driver: Grid, a racing video game and its sequels:
  • Grid 2
  • Grid Autosport
• Spooks 3 Games - The Grid, video game based on the television show Spooks
• The grid, the virtual environment of the game Second Life
• IEEE Grid, a monthly publication of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
• Power Grid, the English-language edition of the multiplayer German-style board game Funkenschlag
• The Grid, the computerized virtual world in which the Tron franchise exists
• The Grid (newspaper), an alternative weekly newspaper in Toronto, Ontario

Music

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

Places

• Grid, a village in Părău Commune, Braşov County, Romania
• Grid, a village administered by Călan town, Hunedoara County, Romania
• Grid plan, a method of city and regional planning in which streets and administrative units are arranged at right angles

Sport

• 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

Other uses

• Cattle grid or stock grid, a type of obstacle is used to prevent livestock from crossing the road
• Firebird Grid, a German paraglider design
• Grid (graphic design), organized lines for guiding graphic design
• Grid (Jotun), a giantess in Norse mythology
• Managerial grid model, a behavioral leadership model
• Grid paper or graph paper, writing paper that is printed with fine lines making up a regular grid
• Tension grid, an area of a theatre

See also

• Grid reference, used to define a location on a map
• GRID1, a human gene
• GRID2, a human gene