national grid

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British a network of high-voltage power lines connecting major power stations

a grid of metric coordinates used by the Ordnance Survey in Britain and Ireland, and in New Zealand by the New Zealand Lands and Survey Department, and printed on their maps

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Words nearby national grid

national forest, National Foundation on the Arts and the Humanities, National Front, National Gallery, National Gallery of Art, national grid, National Guard, National Guardsman, National Health Service, National Highway System, national holiday

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How to use national grid in a sentence

Several National Grid and ConEd trucks were on the scene by early morning.
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