Noun

(en noun)

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

A system for delivery of electricity, consisting of various substations, transformers and generators, connected by wire.

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

* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-07-20, volume=408, issue=8845, magazine=(The Economist)

, title= Out of the gloom , passage=[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.}}

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

(cartography) A method of marking off maps into areas.

(motor racing) The pattern of starting positions of the drivers for a race.

* {{quote-news, year=2012, date=May 13, author=Andrew Benson, work=BBC Sport

, title= Williams's Pastor Maldonado takes landmark Spanish Grand Prix win , passage=McLaren's Lewis Hamilton fought up from the back of the grid to eighth, with team-mate Jenson Button taking ninth.}}

(electronics) The third (or higher) electrode of a vacuum tube (triode or higher).

Noun

(en noun)

A rating.

The performance of an individual or group on an examination or test, expressed by a number, letter, or other symbol; a score.

A degree or level of something; a position within a scale; a degree of quality.

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, year = 1986–2012 , author = paul wheaton permaculture , title = Diatomaceous Earth (food grade): bug killer you can eat! , site = richsoil.com , url = http://www.richsoil.com/diatomaceous-earth.jsp , accessdate = 2014-03-17 }}

There are a lot of varieties of diatomaceous earth, so when you are shopping, be sure to get the right stuff!

Make sure that you get food grade' diatomaceous earth. Some people make 3% of the food they eat be diatomaceous earth. There are claims at parasite control, longevity and all sorts of perks. I know that food '''grade''' diatomaceous earth is used heavily in storing grains - so you are probably already eating lots of diatomaceous earth every time you eat any bread, pasta or other grain based food.

Farmers feed food ' grade diatomaceous earth to their animals to reduce parasites and provide other benefits.

This fine-grade coin from 1837 is worth a good amount.

A slope (up or down) of a roadway or other passage

A level of pre-collegiate education.

A student of a particular grade (used with the grade level).

An area that has been graded by a grader (construction machine)

The level of the ground.

(label) A gradian.

(label) In a linear system of divisors on an n''-dimensional variety, the number of free intersection points of ''n generic divisors.

A harsh scraping or cutting; a grating.

* (and other bibliographic particulars) (John Greenleaf Whittier)

The grade of hatchets fiercely thrown / On wigwam-log, and tree, and stone.

(label) A taxon united by a level of morphological or physiological complexity that is not a clade.

(medicine) The degree of malignity of a tumor expressed on a scale.