gridとは

意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From a shortening of griddle or gridiron.

発音

• IPA^(key): /ɡɹɪd/
• ハイフネーション: grid
• 韻: -ɪd

名詞

grid (複数形 grids)

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.
   • Die Hard (movie)

     You can't turn off the building from here; you have to shut down the whole grid.

   • 2013 July 20, “Out of the gloom”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8845:

     [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.

3. (computing) 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).
4. (cartography) A method of marking off maps into areas.
5. (motor racing) The pattern of starting positions of the drivers for a race.
   • 2012 May 13, Andrew Benson, “Williams's Pastor Maldonado takes landmark Spanish Grand Prix win”, in BBC Sport:

     McLaren's Lewis Hamilton fought up from the back of the grid to eighth, with team-mate Jenson Button taking ninth.

6. (electronics) The third (または higher) electrode of a vacuum tube (triode または higher).
7. (electricity) A battery-plate somewhat like a grating, especially a zinc plate in a primary battery, or a lead plate in a secondary or storage battery.
8. A grating of parallel bars; a gridiron.

下位語

• national grid
• numerical grid
• supergrid

派生語

• gridlock
• supergrid

関連する語

参考

参照

• grid on Wikipedia.

動詞

grid (三人称単数 現在形 grids, 現在分詞 gridding, 過去形および過去分詞形 gridded)

1. To mark with a grid.
2. To assign a reference grid to.

Further reading

• grid in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• grid in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911

アナグラム

• gird