To seize your opponents sword arm or hilt, as referred to in the sixteenth and seventeenth century
This stands for Greedy Randomized Adaptive Search Procedures It is a metaheuristic that uses restart to search many portions of the solution space Once it is started, some Heuristic is employed to reach a local optimum The choice for the local search can be very problem-specific, such as using an n-Opt neighborhood for the TSP, or it can use another metaheuristic, like simulated annealing or tabu search
To effect a grasp; to make the motion of grasping; to clutch; to struggle; to strive
If you say that something is in someone's grasp, you disapprove of the fact that they possess or control it. If something slips from your grasp, you lose it or lose control of it. The people in your grasp are not guests, they are hostages She allowed victory to slip from her grasp. the task of liberating a number of states from the grasp of tyrants
A grasp of something is an understanding of it. They have a good grasp of foreign languages
the act of grasping; "he released his clasp on my arm"; "he has a strong grip for an old man"; "she kept a firm hold on the railing"