GRID

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim A rectangular array of squares or rectangles of equal size, such as in a crossword puzzle.
2. isim A tiling of the plane with regular polygons; a honeycomb.
3. isim 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.”

4. isim 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).
5. isim A method of marking off maps into areas.
6. isim The pattern of starting positions of the drivers for a race.

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

7. isim The third (or higher) electrode of a vacuum tube (triode or higher).
8. isim 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.
9. isim A grating of parallel bars; a gridiron.

   “They camped that night at Dingo Creek, the fire Jim quickly made, Put the Billy on the cross-piece, pitched the tent, Brought a steak from 'neath the saddle-flap, and on the "grid" 'twas laid, A piece of rusty fencing wire, well bent.”

10. isim An openwork ceiling above the stage or studio, used for affixing lights etc.

    “Everything on the grid – all the backdrops and curtains, anything that has to move up and down from the fly-tower – has to be counterweighted.”

11. isim A bicycle.

    “‘Hop on the bar of my grid,’ said D'Arcy. ‘I'll double you round to meet some pals of ours.’”

12. fiil To mark with a grid.
13. fiil To assign a reference grid to.
14. fiil To enter in a grid.

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

15. isim 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.”