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national grid

national grid noun: an electricity transmission network servicing a whole country.

Noun

national grid (plural national grids)

  1. An electricity transmission network servicing a whole country.
    • [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...2013 July 20, “Out of the gloom”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8845

Forms of national grid

pluralnational grids

Questions about national grid

What does national grid mean?
National grid means an electricity transmission network servicing a whole country.
What part of speech is national grid?
National grid is a noun.
What is the plural of national grid?
The plural of national grid is national grids.

Words near national grid in the dictionary

  1. national flags
  2. national flour
  3. national flours
  4. National Forest
  5. National Front
  6. national grid
  7. national grids
  8. National Heroes Day
  9. national holiday
  10. national holidays
  11. national income

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