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Artist and Model in the Studio (detail) by Albrecht Dürer, first published in The Painter's Manual in 1525.

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1. A rectangular array of squares or rectangles of equal size, such as in a crossword puzzle.
2. A system for delivery of electricity, consisting of various substations, transformers and generators, connected by wire.

   You can't turn off the building from here; you have to shut down the whole grid. — line from the motion picture Die Hard

See also

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, used to define a location on a map

Design and planning

• Grid (graphic design) or typographic grid, organized lines for guiding graphic design
• Managerial grid model, a behavioral leadership model
• Grid paper, or graph paper, the writing paper that is printed with fine lines making up a regular grid
• Tension grid, an area of a theatre
• Grid plan, a method of city and regional planning in which streets and administrative units are arranged at right angles

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

Sports

• 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

Geography

• Grid, a village in Părău Commune, Braşov County, Romania
• Grid, a village administered by Călan town, Hunedoara County, Romania

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), the information-organizing scheme
• Grid Systems Corporation, the 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

Culture

Television

• The Grid (miniseries), from 2004, aired on TNT
• The Grid (US TV series), an American TV series, on IFC
• Mobil 1 The Grid, a motorsport magazine TV show, on Channel 4
• "The Grid" (The Outer Limits), an episode of the science fiction series, 2000

Games

• The Grid (arcade game), a 2001 third-person shooter
• Race Driver: Grid, a racing video game and its sequels:
  • Grid 2, a 2013 video game
  • Grid Autosport, a 2014 video game
• Spooks 3 Games - The Grid, a video game based on the television show Spooks
• The grid, the virtual environment of the game Second Life
• The Grid, the computerized virtual world in which the Tron franchise exists

Music

• Grid (album), the eighth original album by the Japanese band m.o.v.e., 2006
• "The Grid", a song by To My Boy

Bands

• The Grid (band), a 1990s electronic dance group, from London
• Kevorkian Death Cycle, a music group formerly called Grid

Publications

• 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 (newspaper), a former alternative weekly newspaper in Toronto, Ontario

Acronyms and codes

• GRid, Global Release Identifier (GRid), a music industry identifier from the RIAA and IFPI
• 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
• GRID1, a human gene
• GRID2, a human gene

Other uses

• Firebird Grid, a German paraglider design
• Grid (Jotun), Gríðr, a giantess in Norse mythology
• Grid (comics), a fictional character in the DC Comics Universe