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gridding

gridding

1 6.2
Dividing an area into squares to organize and study it
  • noun
  • /ˈɡrɪdɪŋ/
  • Specialized
translation icon : división en cuadrícula
  • The gridding process helped the researchers organize their findings in a clear and systematic way.
  • gridding approach

Examples

  • The hunt entails a rational division of space, the gridding of the landscape ensuring the thoroughness of the detectives' investigation.

    Academic text (2002)
  • Other pump designers can take advantage of commercially available superior gridding packages, such as the GridPro/AZ3000 package developed by Program Development Corp. in White Plains, N.Y.

    Academic text (1996)
  • What you are describing, creating a temperature series that reflects the region, is the gridding process.

    Blog text (22)
  • Unfortunately, we haven't yet published the details of how the gridding and calibration were done.

    Blog text (9)
  • Data were interpolated using the "Diva Gridding" function implemented in Ocean Data View software.

    Academic text (2018)
  • Each magnification entailed the traditional, laborious gridding of measurements or points, which mapped the complex, swelling, irregular shape.

    Academic text (2003)
  • Although the computational complexity rises exponentially with dimension, implementation of the ray-gridding has shown improved results compared to other similar approaches (Polanski, 2000).

    Academic text (2010)
  • A century later, in the politically tumultuous first decade of the new nation, Euro-American settlers began crossing the Appalachian chain through western New York, Pennsylvania, and Virginia, secure in their intentions by national government ordinances designed for the gridding, mapping, and occupying of the Ohio River Valley.

    Academic text (1996)
  • During the project, we focused on the gridding of the area to visualize the data more effectively.

  • The gridding of the landscape allowed planners to allocate resources more efficiently.

Synonyms

platting
vsgridding
  • Specialized
7.6

The process of dividing land into lots for building or sale

is used to divide areas into regular grid sections for analysis or planning

Surface Forms

gridding singular
griddings plural

Morphology

gridding = grid (transparent) = grid + ing

This is a regular deverbal noun/gerund form built from the verb 'grid' plus '-ing', so the meaning is straightforwardly compositional.

Etymology

Gridding comes from the familiar word grid, which means 'a set of crossing lines that make boxes'. Picture drawing straight lines over a map or plan to break the space into neat squares, and you will see why gridding means the process of dividing an area into a grid for organization or study.