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The faint lines that let you lie precisely instead of guessing wildly.
means One of the faint reference lines on a graph or map that let you measure and align things accurately.
from A straightforward compound of 'grid' (from 'gridiron,' the medieval cooking rack of parallel bars, later borrowed for any network of crossing lines) and 'line.' The sense of 'grid' as a graph or map framework is a 20th-century extension — the cooking rack's crosshatch pattern lending its name to anything similarly ruled into squares.
- origin
- From cartography and graph paper, not design software
- job
- Marks scale and position without demanding attention
- design rule
- Good gridlines are seen only when searched for
- excel fame
- Most people only know them from spreadsheets