Architecture and Engineering
- Gridiron plan, in urban planning, a system that describes an ordered arrangement of streets in a regular grid pattern, intersecting at right angles
- In theatres, a metal framework suspended above the stage from which lights and other items are hung
- Gridiron pendulum, a part of a pendulum clock as designed by John Harrison
- In marine salvage, a ship, especially a wooden ship, at the end of its life is settled onto a gridiron to keep the hull clear
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