Grid

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Grid or The Grid may refer to:

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
• 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.
• "The Grid", song by To My Boy

Science and technology

• Electrical grid, a network for delivering electricity
• Grid computing, the application of a network of computers to a single problem
• 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
• GRiD Systems Corporation, founded in 1979, developer of range of laptops
• Grid Compass, the first laptop computer released in 1982
• Lattice graph or "grid graph", a graph formed from a regular lattice of vertices
• ESRI grid file format for geographic information systems

Acronym

• Gay-related immune deficiency (GRID), an early suggested name for AIDS
• Global Release Identifier (GRid), a music industry identifier from the RIAA and IFPI
• GRID1, GRID2, human genes; Glutamate receptor, ionotropic delta 1 or 2
• Great Rhomb-Icosi-Dodecahedron (abbreviated as GRID)

Geography

• 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
• Grid references, used to define locations on maps

Other uses

• Cattle grid or Stock grid, a type of obstacle is used to prevent livestock from crossing the road
• Regular grid, a tessellation of Euclidean space
• Grid (graphic design), organized lines for guiding graphic design
• Grid (spatial index), information-organizing scheme
• Grid (Jotun), a giantess in Norse mythology
• Managerial grid model, a behavioral leadership model
• Starting grid, the positioning of vehicles for starting a motorsport race
• Gridiron football or "gridiron", a team-based sports game (the term "the grid" was also applied to the playing-field itself)
• Graph paper or "grid paper", writing paper that is printed with fine lines making up a regular grid
• Tension grid, an area of a theatre
• National Pro Grid League, a professional co-ed athletic team competition.