power grid

Questions about power grid

What does power grid mean?

power grid means "a system of high tension cables by which electrical power is distributed throughout a region".

What is another word for power grid?

Close synonyms include power system, grid. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is power grid a common word?

power grid is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.