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power grid en · NOUN

Meanings

1. The infrastructure for distributing electrical power throughout a region.
   • There have been several examples of space weather affecting power grids in the last few decades, notably blackouts caused by GICs [geomagnetically induced currents] in Canada in 1989 and Sweden in 2003. 2023 November 15, Prof. Jim Wild, “This train was delayed because of bad weather in space”, in RAIL, number 996, page 30:
   • Russian missiles have damaged or destroyed much of Ukraine’s power grid since the start of October, a concerted effort to make the winter as painful as possible for the civilian population. 2022 December 7, Simon Shuster, “2022 Person of the Year: Volodymyr Zelensky”, in Time, archived from the original on 04 Jan 2023:

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national grid

Translations (21)

af kragnetwerk (the infrastructure for distributing electrical power throughout a region) · be электрасе́тка (the infrastructure for distributing electrical power throughout a region) · uk електромере́жа (the infrastructure for distributing electrical power throughout a region) · da elforsyningsnet (the infrastructure for distributing electrical power throughout a region) · sv kraftnät (the infrastructure for distributing electrical power throughout a region) · fi sähköverkko (the infrastructure for distributing electrical power throughout a region) · sh електромрежа (the infrastructure for distributing electrical power throughout a region) · da elnet (the infrastructure for distributing electrical power throughout a region) · et elektrivõrk (the infrastructure for distributing electrical power throughout a region) · sw gridi ya umeme (the infrastructure for distributing electrical power throughout a region) · ru электросе́ть (the infrastructure for distributing electrical power throughout a region) · et vooluvõrk (the infrastructure for distributing electrical power throughout a region) · pt rede elétrica (the infrastructure for distributing electrical power throughout a region) · da elektricitetsforsyningsnet (the infrastructure for distributing electrical power throughout a region) · pl sieć elektroenergetyczna (the infrastructure for distributing electrical power throughout a region) · sh elektromreža (the infrastructure for distributing electrical power throughout a region) · es red eléctrica (the infrastructure for distributing electrical power throughout a region) · de Stromnetz (the infrastructure for distributing electrical power throughout a region) · fr réseau électrique (the infrastructure for distributing electrical power throughout a region) · ca xarxa elèctrica (the infrastructure for distributing electrical power throughout a region) · nl elektriciteitsnet (the infrastructure for distributing electrical power throughout a region)