The Grand Tour was an opportunity for a young gentleman to explore the world and make his official entrance into society. The tour was a chance for young men to travel to far-away places, learn about culture and art, and refine his tastes and manners. It was also a chance to be free of supervision, a fact of which many of the men took advantage. For more information, visit an ECE student project on The Grand Tour
The grand tour is a method for viewing multivariate statistical data via orthogonal projections onto a sequence of two-dimensional subspaces. The sequence of subspaces is chosen so that it is dense in the set of all two-dimensional subspaces. Desirable properties of such sequences of subspaces are considered, and several specific types of sequences are tested for rapidity of becoming dense. Tabulations are provided of the minimum length of a grand tour sequence necessary to achieve various degrees of denseness in dimensions up to 20. [ASI85
European tour made by young, wealthy 18thC men, following completion of a formal education. The aim was to absorb the culture, history and contemporary art of the great European cities.
an extended sightseeing tour undertaken for pleasure
The highest category of stage-race. There are three Grand Tours, each lasting 3 weeks. They are the Giro d'Italia, the Tour de France and the Vuelta a España.
Refers to three-week major cycling stage races: Tour de France, Giro d'Italia (Tour of Italy), and Vuelta a Espana (Tour of Spain).
A major stage race, usually lasting up to three weeks. The Tour de France, the Giro d'Italia (Tour of Italy), and the Vuelta a Espana (Tour of Spain) are the three grand tours of international pro cycling.
A tour taken by a performer, generally with only a piano, to perform excerpts from various works.
The Grand Tour was a European travel itinerary that flourished from about 1660 until the arrival of mass rail transit in the 1820s. It was popular amongst young British upper-class men and served as an educational rite of passage for the wealthy. Its primary value lay in the exposure both to the cultural artifacts of antiquity and the Renaissance and to the aristocratic and fashionable society of the European continent.
The Grand Tour is a series of novels written by science fiction author Ben Bova.