grid pattern
Intersecting horizontal, vertical
A grid pattern is an arrangement of lines crossing at regular intervals to form squares or rectangles, like graph paper or city street layouts.
The term describes any systematic crisscross arrangement: The search team covered the area in a grid pattern.
Urban planners favor grid patterns for their navigability; nature rarely produces them.
- latticeOpenwork of crossed strips
- meshInterlocking open weave
- matrixOrdered numerical arrangement
- squaresFour-sided equal figures
- square tilesFour-equal-sided covering pieces
lines · checkered · tic tac toe · graph paper · crosshatch · tiles · window pane · waffle · plaid · intersecting · cells · rows · columns · coordinate · spreadsheet · weave · screen · fence
- gridsmatrix, lattice, mesh, raster, checkerboard
- meshworknet, netting, mesh, lattice, gridwork
- patternschevron, stripes, plaid, tiles, herringbone
- grid patternscheckerboard, lattice, gridlines, squares, graph paper
- street gridstreets, avenues, boulevards, intersections, blocks
- checkered thingschess board, racing flag, checkered flag, gingham, buffalo check
spatial organization
grid patternchaos
Complete disorder and confusion
disorder · scatter · asymmetry · randomness · jumble
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