grid

A rectangular array of squares or rectangles of equal size, such as in a crossword puzzle.

A tiling of the plane with regular polygons; a honeycomb.

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.

[Rural solar plant] schemes are of little help to industry or other heavy users of electricity. Nor is solar power yet as cheap as the grid. For all that, the rapid arrival of electric light to Indian villages is long overdue. When the national grid suffers its next huge outage, as it did in July 2012 when hundreds of millions were left in the dark, look for specks of light in the villages.

A system or structure of distributed computers working mostly on a peer-to-peer basis, used mainly to solve single and complex scientific or technical problems or to process data at high speeds (as in clusters).

A method of marking off maps into areas.

To mark with a grid.

To assign a reference grid to.

To enter in a grid.

On the SAT, to answer a grid-in question, you grid in your answer by filling out the ovals.

Acronym of gay-related immunodeficiency (“AIDS”) .

The cause of the disorder is unknown. Researchers call it A.I.D., for acquired immunodeficiency disease, or GRID, for gay-related immunodeficiency. It has been reported in 20 states and seven countries.