grid-like

grid-likeadjective
more grid-like
Comp.
most grid-like
Super.
Used attributively and predicatively to describe something that resembles a grid.
Translations
quadrilléSe dit d’un motif, d’un tracé ou d’une disposition présentant des lignes qui se croisent régulièrement.
The city’s streets follow a strict, grid-like pattern.
Les rues de la ville suivent un tracé strictement quadrillé.
Additional translations
en grilleS’emploie surtout dans des descriptions techniques ou visuelles.
Definitions
Resembling or having the characteristics of a grid, especially a pattern of regularly spaced intersecting lines forming squares or rectangles.
The city’s streets follow a strict, grid-like pattern.
grid-likeadverb
Used predicatively to modify verbs, meaning ‘in a grid-like manner’; less common.
Translations
en grilleExprime une disposition régulière en lignes qui se croisent.
The saplings were planted grid-like across the field.
Les jeunes plants ont été plantés en grille dans le champ.
Additional translations
selon un quadrillagePlus explicite, souvent utilisé dans un contexte descriptif ou technique.
Definitions
In a grid-like fashion; with the regular intersecting-line arrangement characteristic of a grid.
The saplings were planted grid-like across the field.
Synonyms
in a grid
in a grid-like manner
in a gridlike manner
in a grid pattern
in a lattice pattern
in a checkerboard pattern
in a crisscross pattern
in a reticulated pattern