Noun

(es)

(internet, GUI) A style of layout allowing elements on a web page to be arranged differently depending on the size and capabilities of a user's display.

* 2012 , Sergey Mavrody, ?Nika Mavrody, Sergey's HTML5 & CSS3: Quick Reference (page 112)

The contents of a flexbox can be positioned in any direction, can have their order swapped dynamically, and can auto-adjust their sizes and positions based on available space.

* 2013 , Jeremy Foster, CSS for Windows 8 App Development (page 161)

There's still quite a bit of tumult in the standards recommendations and implementations for flexboxes , but IE10 and Windows 8 has a good, solid implementation of this extremely helpful layout technique.

* 2014 , Andy Harris, HTML5 and CSS3 All-in-One For Dummies

You can nest flexboxes inside each other.

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.

* (movie)

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).