Grid, The Grid, or GRID may refer to:

Common usage

* Cattle grid or stock grid, a type of obstacle is used to prevent livestock from crossing the road *

Grid reference A projected coordinate system, also known as a projected coordinate reference system, a planar coordinate system, or grid reference system, is a type of spatial reference system that represents locations on the Earth using cartesian coordin ...

, used to define a location on a map

Arts, entertainment, and media

News grid A news grid or media grid is a strategy used in public relations for the content and timing of communications to a mass media audience. The term is mostly associated with political communications, but grids can be used by any organisation. Governm ...

, 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 * Grid, a Xenomorph from '' Alien vs Predator'' * The grid, the virtual environment of the game ''

Second Life ''Second Life'' is an online multimedia platform that allows people to create an avatar for themselves and then interact with other users and user created content within a multi player online virtual world. Developed and owned by the San Fra ...

'' * ''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 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 ...

'', the English-language edition of the multiplayer German-style board game ''Funkenschlag'' *

Grid (series) ''Grid'' (Stylised as ''GRID'') is a racing video game series developed by Codemasters and published by Electronic Arts. It is considered a descendant of Codemasters' earlier ''TOCA Race Driver'' series. Games ''Race Driver: Grid'' (2008) D ...

, 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 The Global Release Identifier (GRid) is a system to identify releases of digital sound recordings (and other digital data) for electronic distribution. It is designed to be integrated with identification systems deployed by key stakeholders from ...

(GRid), a music industry identifier from the RIAA and IFPI * Kevorkian Death Cycle, a music group formerly called ''Grid'' *

The Grid The Grid is an English electronic dance group, consisting of David Ball (formerly of Soft Cell) and Richard Norris, with guest contributions from other musicians. They are best known for the hits "Swamp Thing", "Texas Cowboys", "Crystal Cle ...

, 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

* Gridiron football or "gridiron", a team-based sports game ("the grid" also refers to the playing-field) **

National Pro Grid League The National Pro Grid League (NPGL) was a professional athletics organization consisting of mixed-gender teams that operated from 2014 through 2016. No NPGL events have occurred since the final matches in 2016. The teams compete in timed events in ...

, a professional co-ed athletic team competition * Starting grid, 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, a method of city and regional planning in which streets and administrative units are arranged at right angles *

Managerial grid model The managerial grid model or managerial grid theory (1964) is a style leadership model developed by Robert R. Blake and Jane Mouton. This model originally identified five different leadership styles based on the ''concern for people'' and the ...

, a behavioral leadership model *

Tension grid Tension may refer to: Science * Psychological stress * Tension (physics), a force related to the stretching of an object (the opposite of compression) * Tension (geology), a stress which stretches rocks in two opposite directions * Voltage or el ...

, an area of a theatre *

CSS grid layout In Cascading Style Sheets, CSS grid layout or CSS grid creates complex responsive web design grid layouts more easily and consistently across browsers. Historically, there have been other methods for controlling web page layout methods, such ...

, a CSS layout that works well with Flexbox

Place names

* Grid, a village administered by

Călan Călan (; ; ) is a town in Hunedoara County, Romania. Twelve villages are administered by the town: Batiz (''Batiz''), Călanu Mic (''Kiskalán''), Grid, Nădăștia de Jos (''Alsónádasd''), Nădăștia de Sus (''Felsőnádasd''), Ohaba Streiul ...

town, Hunedoara County, Romania * Grid, a village in

Părău Părău (german: Mikesdorf-Berau; hu, Páró) is a commune in Brașov County, Transylvania, Romania. It is composed of four villages: Grid, Părău, Veneția de Jos (''Untervenitze''; ''Alsóvenice''), and Veneția de Sus (''Felsővenice''). Th ...

Commune, Braşov County, Romania * Grid, a tributary of the river Valea Luncanilor in Hunedoara County, Romania * Grid, a tributary of the river

in Brașov County, Romania

Science and technology

Control grid The control grid is 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 (plate) electrode. The control grid usually consist ...

, an electrode to control electrons in vacuum tubes * Electrical grid, a network for delivering electricity *

Screen grid A tetrode is a vacuum tube (called ''valve'' in British English) having four active electrodes. The four electrodes in order from the centre are: a thermionic cathode, first and second grids and a plate (called ''anode'' in British English). T ...

, a grid used in vacuum tubes to reduce capacitance * Suppressor grid, a grid used in vacuum tubes to suppress secondary emission

Biology and healthcare

Gay-related immune deficiency AIDS is caused by a human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), which originated in non-human primates in Central and West Africa. While various sub-groups of the virus acquired human infectivity at different times, the present pandemic had its origins ...

, or GRID, an early suggested name for AIDS * ''

GRID1 Glutamate receptor delta-1 subunit also known as GluD1 or GluRδ1 is a transmembrane protein (1009 aa) encoded by the ''GRID1'' gene. A C-terminal GluD1 splicing isoform (896 aa) has been described based on mRNA analysis. Function This gene ...

'', a human gene * ''

GRID2 Glutamate receptor, ionotropic, delta 2, also known as GluD2, GluRδ2, or δ2, is a protein that in humans is encoded by the ''GRID2'' gene. This protein together with GluD1 belongs to the delta receptor subtype of ionotropic glutamate receptors. ...

'', a human gene

Computing

* ''GRID'', Global Research Identifier Database ID (''grid''), an openly-available, persistent ID for research institutions worldwide, providing linked metadata, created and updated by Digital Science * Grid computing, the application of a network of computers to a single problem * Computation grid, or mesh, the outcome of using

principles of grid generation Mesh generation is the practice of creating a mesh, a subdivision of a continuous geometric space into discrete geometric and topological cells. Often these cells form a simplicial complex. Usually the cells partition the geometric input domain ...

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 An Esri grid is a raster GIS file format developed by Esri, which has two formats: #A proprietary binary format, also known as an ''ARC/INFO GRID'', ''ARC GRID'' and ''many'' other variations #A non-proprietary ASCII format, also known as an ''AR ...

, a file format for geographic information systems *

Grid view A grid view or a datagrid is a graphical control element that presents a tabular view of data. A typical grid view also supports some or all of the following: * Clicking a ''column header'' to change the sort order of the grid * Dragging co ...

, a graphical control element (software widget) that presents a tabular view of data

Mathematics

* GRID (geometry) (Great Rhomb-Icosi-Dodecahedron) or truncated icosidodecahedron *

Grid (spatial index) In the context of a spatial index, a grid or mesh 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. A ...

, the information-organizing scheme *

Lattice graph In graph theory, a lattice graph, mesh graph, or grid graph is a graph whose drawing, embedded in some Euclidean space , forms a regular tiling. This implies that the group of bijective transformations that send the graph to itself is a la ...

or "grid graph", a graph formed from a regular lattice of vertices *

Regular grid A regular grid is a tessellation of ''n''-dimensional Euclidean space by congruent parallelotopes (e.g. bricks). Its opposite is irregular grid. Grids of this type appear on graph paper and may be used in finite element analysis, finite vol ...

, a tessellation of Euclidean space

Other uses

* Firebird Grid, a German paraglider design *

Grid power Mains electricity or utility power, power grid, domestic power, and wall power, or in some parts of Canada as hydro, is a general-purpose alternating-current (AC) electric power supply. It is the form of electrical power that is delivered to ...

* Grid Systems Corporation, the developer of historic laptops, founded in 1979