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noun

a metric unit of mass or weight equal to 15.432 grains; one thousandth of a kilogram. Abbreviation: g

Also, especially British, gramme.

Origin:
1790–1800; < French gramme < Late Latin gramma a small weight < Greek grámma something drawn, a small weight

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Gram stain of tissue biopsy test involves using crystal violet stain to test a sample of tissue taken from a biopsy.

Better yet, bugs provide more nutrients than beef or fish, gram for gram.

The gold particles excreted by the microbes are so tiny it would take about a million microbes to produce a gram of solid gold.

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Gram stain of tissue biopsy test involves using crystal violet stain to test a sample of tissue taken from a biopsy.

Better yet, bugs provide more nutrients than beef or fish, gram for gram.

The gold particles excreted by the microbes are so tiny it would take about a million microbes to produce a gram of solid gold.

Gram positive bacteria stain during this process a dark violet or blue.

Helium is lighter than air and able to lift about one gram per liter of gas.

In periodontal disease, the bacterial balance shifts over to gram negative anaerobic bacteria.

The poisoning is relatively rapid and a millionth of a gram is sufficient to kill.

For a hundred dollars, in fact, anyone can buy nanoparticles-speci?cally a gram of carbon nanotubes-online.

The amounts found in the study were miniscule--measured in the billionth of a gram.

The whole plane weighs next to nothing with the electronic components consisting of only half a gram.

Gram said the conversation veered broadly and included discussion of whether society had the right to take a life.

One gram of patriotic pressure is often worth a tonne of well-meaning foreign meddling.

One gram of the antigen can supply millions of vaccine shots.

Just the opposite is true: the longer the decay lifetime, the less the radiation emitted per gram of radio-isotope.

By comparison, carbon nanotubes merely have potential, and are produced by the gram.

The longer the decay lifetime, the less the radiation emitted per gram of radio-isotope.

Thousands of metres of spun silk typically weigh no more than a gram.

McCarthy was a strong proponent of nuclear power, even offering to eat a gram of plutonium to show how safe it was.

Endocervical gram stain is a method of identifying bacteria on tissue from the cervix using a special series of stains.

Gram negative bacteria would be pink in color, and are capable of harm as well to a human being.

His younger friend survived an eighteen gram dose of the same poison.

Suspects found in possession of less than a gram of heroin are let go.

The calorimeter translates the change in temperature into calories per gram of food.

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noun

(in the East Indies) the chickpea used as a food for people and cattle.

any of several other beans, as the mung bean, Vigna radiata (green gram or golden gram), or the urd, V. mungo (black gram).

Origin:
1695–1705; < Portuguese grão < Latin grānum grain

noun

(in the Volsunga Saga) the sword of Sigmund, broken by Odin, repaired by Regin, and used again by Sigurd in killing Fafnir.

Compare Balmung.

Origin:
< Old Norse Gramr literally, angry, evil

a combining form occurring in loanwords from Greek, where it meant “something written,” “drawing” (epigram; diagram); on this model, used in the formation of compound words (oscillogram).

Compare -graph.

Origin:
< Greek -gramma, combining form of grámma something written or drawn; akin to carve

a combining form of gram¹: kilogram.

a combining form extracted from telegram, used in the formation of compound words that have the general sense “message, bulletin”: culturegram; electiongram; prophecy-gram.

grammar.

grammarian.

grammatical.

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World English Dictionary

gram¹ (ɡræm)

—n
	g a metric unit of mass equal to one thousandth of a kilogram. It is equivalent to 15.432 grains or 0.002 205 pounds

[C18: from French gramme, from Late Latin gramma, from Greek: small weight, from graphein to write]

gram² (ɡræm)

—n
1.	any of several leguminous plants, such as the beans Phaseolus mungo (black gram or urd) and P. aureus (green gram), whose seeds are used as food in India
2.	the seed of any of these plants

[C18: from Portuguese gram (modern spelling grão), from Latin grānumgrain]

gram³ (ɡrɑːm)

—n
	(in India) a village

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Word Origin & History

gram

1797, from Fr. gramme, from L.L. gramma "small weight," from Gk. gramma "small weight," originally "letter of the alphabet," from stem of graphein "to draw, write." Adopted into Eng. about two years before it was established in Fr. as a unit in the metric system by law of 19 frimaire, year VIII (1799).

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-gram

suffix from telegram (1857), first abstracted 1979 (in Gorillagram, a proprietary name in U.S.), and put to wide use in forming new words, such as stripagram (1981). The construction violates Gk. grammar, as an adv. could not properly form part of a compound noun.

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Medical Dictionary

gram (grām)
n.
Abbr. g, gm., gr.
A metric unit of mass equal to 15.432 grains, one thousandth (10-³) of a kilogram, or 0.035 ounce.

Gram (grām, gräm), Hans Christian Joachim. 1853-1938.

Danish physician who developed (1884) Gram's stain as a method of distinguishing types of bacteria.

-gram suff.
Something written or drawn; a record: cardiogram.

American Heritage

Science Dictionary

gram (grām) Pronunciation Key
A unit of mass in the metric system, equal to 0.001 kilogram or 0.035 ounce. See Table at measurement.

Gram (gräm, grām) Pronunciation Key
Danish bacteriologist who in 1884 developed a method of staining bacteria, called Gram's stain or Gram's dye, that is used to identify and classify bacteria, often from samples of infected body fluids. The classification, called gram-negative or gram-positive, can be useful in the initial selection of antibiotics to treat the infection.

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Cultural Dictionary

gram definition

The basic unit of measurement for mass in the metric system; one cubic centimeter of water has a mass of approximately one gram.

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GRAM definition

An extension of BNF used by the SIS compiler generator.
["SIS - Semantics Implementation System", P.D. Mosses, TR DAIMI MD-30, Aarhus U, Denmark].
(1995-01-23)

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