national grid

national grid
n [sing]
1. the network of equipment that supplies electricity all over England, Scotland and Wales.
2. the system of horizontal and vertical lines that is used on British Ordnance Survey maps to divide the country into squares so that the position of a place on the map can be referred to easily.

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