Grid, The Grid, or GRID may refer to:

Common usage

Cattle grid A cattle grid – also known as a stock grid in Australia; cattle guard, or cattle grate in American English; vehicle pass, or stock gap in the Southeastern United States; Texas gate in western Canada and the northwestern United States; and a ...

or stock grid, a type of obstacle is used to prevent livestock from crossing the road * Grid reference, used to define a location on a map

Arts, entertainment, and media

* News grid, used in communications/public relations

Fictional entities

* Grid (comics), a fictional character in the DC Comics Universe * Grid (Jotun), Gríðr, a giantess in Norse mythology * The grid, the virtual environment of the game '' Second Life'' * ''The Grid'', the computerized virtual world in which the Tron franchise exists

Games and gaming

* Nvidia GRID, a cloud gaming platform for Nvidia Tegra products * '' Power Grid'', the English-language edition of the multiplayer German-style board game ''Funkenschlag'' * Grid (series), a series of racing video games developed by Codemasters * Spooks 3 Games - ''The Grid'', a video game based on the television show ''Spooks'' * ''The Grid'' (video game), a 2001 third-person shooter

Music

* ''Grid'' (album), the eighth original album by the Japanese band m.o.v.e., 2006 * ''GRid'', Global Release Identifier (GRid), a music industry identifier from the RIAA and IFPI *

Kevorkian Death Cycle Kevorkian Death Cycle is an American electro-industrial band from Riverside, California founded by Ryan Gribbin and Roger Jarvis. The band was originally named Grid and later changed their name to the politically motivated "Kevorkian Death Cycle ...

, a music group formerly called ''Grid'' * The Grid, a 1990s electronic dance group, from London * "The Grid", a song by

To My Boy To My Boy is an electropop duo consisting of Jack Snape and Sam White, who originate from Chesterfield and Liverpool respectively. They met whilst both members were undergraduate students at Durham University, and are currently based in Live ...

Periodicals

* ''

IEEE Grid The publications of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) constitute around 30% of the world literature in the electrical and electronics engineering and computer science fields, publishing well over 100 peer-reviewed journals ...

'', a monthly publication of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers * ''The Grid'' (newspaper), a former alternative weekly newspaper in Toronto, Ontario

Sports

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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 Start can refer to multiple topics: *Takeoff, the phase of flight where an aircraft transitions from moving along the ground to flying through the air *Starting lineup in sports *Standing start, and rolling start, in an auto race Acronyms *Str ...

, the positioning of vehicles for starting a motorsport race

Television

* ''The Grid'' (TV serial), a BBC drama from 2004 * "The Grid" (''The Outer Limits''), an episode of the science fiction series, 2000 * ''The Grid'' (American TV series), an American TV series, on IFC * ''

Mobil 1 The Grid ''Mobil 1 The Grid'' is a motorsport magazine show, which is aired worldwide by more than 130 broadcasters each month, including CBS Sports Network in North America, beIN Sports, Fox Sports (Australia) and CNBC Globally. The show is narrated ...

'', a motorsport magazine TV show, on Channel 4 * ''Grid'' (South Korean TV series), a 2022 streaming television series

Design and planning

Grid (graphic design) In graphic design, a grid is a structure (usually two-dimensional) made up of a series of intersecting straight (vertical, horizontal, and angular) or curved lines (grid lines) used to structure content. The grid serves as an armature or framew ...

or ''typographic grid'', organized lines for guiding graphic design *

Grid paper Graph paper, coordinate paper, grid paper, or squared paper is writing paper that is printed with fine lines making up a regular grid. The lines are often used as guides for plotting graphs of functions or experimental data and drawing curves. I ...

, or graph paper, the writing paper that is printed with fine lines making up a regular grid *

Grid plan In urban planning, the grid plan, grid street plan, or gridiron plan is a type of city plan in which streets run at right angles to each other, forming a grid. Two inherent characteristics of the grid plan, frequent intersections and orthogona ...

, a method of city and regional planning in which streets and administrative units are arranged at right angles * Managerial grid model, a behavioral leadership model * Tension grid, an area of a theatre * CSS grid layout, a CSS layout that works well with Flexbox

Place names

* Grid, a village administered by Călan town, Hunedoara County, Romania * Grid, a village in Părău Commune, Braşov County, Romania * Grid, a tributary of the river

Valea Luncanilor The Valea Luncanilor (also: ''Luncani'', in its upper course: ''Pârâul Vânătorului'') is a right tributary of the river Strei in Romania Romania ( ; ro, România ) is a country located at the crossroads of Central Europe, Central, Ea ...

in Hunedoara County, Romania * Grid, a tributary of the river Părău in Brașov County, Romania

Science and technology

* Control grid, an electrode to control electrons in vacuum tubes *

Electrical grid An electrical grid is an interconnected network for electricity delivery from producers to consumers. Electrical grids vary in size and can cover whole countries or continents. It consists of:Kaplan, S. M. (2009). Smart Grid. Electrical Power ...

, a network for delivering electricity * Screen grid, a grid used in vacuum tubes to reduce capacitance *

Suppressor grid A suppressor grid is a wire screen (grid) used in a thermionic valve (vacuum tube) to suppress secondary emission. It is also called the ''antidynatron grid'', as it reduces or prevents dynatron oscillations. It is located between the screen grid ...

, a grid used in vacuum tubes to suppress secondary emission

Biology and healthcare

* Gay-related immune deficiency, or GRID, an early suggested name for AIDS * '' GRID1'', a human gene * '' GRID2'', a human gene

Computing

* ''GRID'',

Global Research Identifier Database Global Research Identifier Database (GRID) is a database of educational and research organizations worldwide, created and maintained by Digital Science & Research Solutions Ltd., part of the technology company Digital Science. In 2021 public rele ...

ID (''grid''), an openly-available, persistent ID for research institutions worldwide, providing linked metadata, created and updated by Digital Science *

Grid computing Grid computing is the use of widely distributed computer resources to reach a common goal. A computing grid can be thought of as a distributed system with non-interactive workloads that involve many files. Grid computing is distinguished from co ...

, the application of a network of computers to a single problem * Computation grid, or mesh, the outcome of using principles of grid generation to divide a complex shape into simple cells for simulations or computer graphics * Data grid, middleware services that pull together data and resources from multiple domains * Esri grid, a file format for geographic information systems * Grid view, a graphical control element (software widget) that presents a tabular view of data

Mathematics

GRID (geometry) In geometry, a truncated icosidodecahedron, rhombitruncated icosidodecahedron,Wenninger Model Number 16 great rhombicosidodecahedron,Williams (Section 3-9, p. 94)Cromwell (p. 82) omnitruncated dodecahedron or omnitruncated icosahedronNorman Wooda ...

(Great Rhomb-Icosi-Dodecahedron) or truncated icosidodecahedron * Grid (spatial index), the information-organizing scheme * Lattice graph or "grid graph", a graph formed from a regular lattice of vertices * Regular grid, a tessellation of Euclidean space

Other uses

Firebird Grid The Firebird Grid is a German single-place, paraglider that was designed and produced by Firebird Sky Sports AG of Füssen in the mid-2000s. It is now out of production.Bertrand, Noel; Rene Coulon; et al: ''World Directory of Leisure Aviation 2 ...

, a German paraglider design * Grid power * Grid Systems Corporation, the developer of historic laptops, founded in 1979