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GRIP

(Globally Resilient IP) Features built into Cisco's IOS router operating system in 2002 that eliminate packet loss during a router switchover. Such features include Stateful Switchover, which transfers the state of the original router to the standby router, while Nonstop Forwarding maintains packet flow during the switchover.

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grip

1. Tools any device that holds by friction, such as certain types of brake

2. TV, Cinema a worker in a camera crew or a stagehand who shifts sets and props, etc.

3. Engineering a small drainage channel cut above an excavation to conduct surface water away from the excavation

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grip [grip]

(ordnance)

One of a pair of wooden or plastic items designed to be attached by threaded fasteners to the two sides of the frame of a weapon, such as a revolver or bayonet; it is shaped to fit the hand and to provide a formed surface to hold the weapon.

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GRIP - Graph Reduction In Parallel. Simon Peyton Jones's GRIP machine built at UCL, now at the University of Glasgow. It has many processors (Motorola 68020 or other) on Futurebus with intelligent memory units.