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Look up grid in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.

Grid may mean: Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name. ... Wiktionary (a portmanteau of wiki and dictionary) is a multilingual, Web-based project to create a free content dictionary, available in over 150 languages. ...

GRID may stand for: 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. ... Tandy Corporation was a family owned leather goods company based in Fort Worth, Texas, which is best known for purchasing and giving its name to the Cambridge, Massachusetts-based RadioShack Corporation. ... In Norse mythology, Gríðr (sometimes Anglicized Grid) was a giantess who, aware of Lokis plans to get Thor killed at the hands of the giant Geirrod, sets out to help him by supplying him with a number of magical gifts. ... In typography, the grid system, also called grids, refers to the practice of laying out of a page using a grid of different-sized and -shaped rectangles to align items to. ... Grid computing is an emerging computing model that provides the ability to perform higher throughput computing by taking advantage of many networked computers to model a virtual computer architecture that is able to distribute process execution across a parallel infrastructure. ... In graph theory, a grid graph is a graph corresponding to the square lattice, so that it is isomorphic to the graph having a vertex corresponding to every pair of integers (a, b), and an edge connecting (a, b) to (a+1, b) and (a, b+1). ... A simple grid plan road map (Windermere, Florida). ... A grid reference is a standard method for the location of a point on a map. ... NSTableView is the Mac OS X version of grid view A grid view or a datagrid is a graphical user interface element (widget) that presents a tabular view of data. ... The Grid is an English group/production group for electronic music that consists of Richard Norris and Dave Ball (formerly of Soft Cell). ... The Grid is a 2001 arcade game by Midway. ... Power line redirects here. ... Power line redirects here. ... Power line redirects here. ... The term off the grid refers to a method of construction that relies on renewable energy sources rather than traditional public utility sources provided by the utility grid. ... In mathematics, a partition of an interval [a, b] on the real line is a finite sequence of the form a = x0 < x1 < x2 < ... < xn = b. ... Example of regular grid. ... Example of unstructured grid for a finite element analysis mesh. ... BraÅŸov (Hungarian: Brassó) is a county (judeÅ£) in the center of Romania, in Transylvania region, with the capital city at BraÅŸov (population: 315,843). ... County Hunedoara County Status Town Mayor Adrian Filip Iovănesc, National Liberal Party, since 2004 Area 101 km² Population (2004) 14,714 Density 145 inh/km² Geographical coordinates Călan is a town in Romania, in Hunedoara County, on the Strei river valley, at 230 m altitude. ... Hunedoara (Hungarian: Hunyad) is a county (JudeÅ£) in Western Romania, in South-Western Transylvania, with the capital city at Deva (population: 77,259). ... The Global Release Identifier (GRid) is a system to identify releases of sound recordings for electronic distribution. ...


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national grid - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about national grid (310 words)
In the countryside the grid is highly visible as the cables and wires are supported on pylons.
Nearer to towns and villages the cables are usually buried underground.
As the grid approaches local users, the voltage is decreased to safer values using step-down transformers.
Grid computing - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (2536 words)
Grids provide the ability to perform computations on large data sets, by breaking them down into many smaller ones, or provide the ability to perform many more computations at once than would be possible on a single computer, by modeling a parallel division of labour between processes.
Grid computing offers a model for solving massive computational problems by making use of the unused resources (CPU cycles and/or disk storage) of large numbers of disparate computers, often desktop computers, treated as a virtual cluster embedded in a distributed telecommunications infrastructure.
Grid computing is also attractive to large commercial enterprises with complex computation problems who aim to fully exploit their internal computing power: internal Grids.
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