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G, g

  [jee]
–noun, plural G's or Gs, g's or gs.
1. the seventh letter of the English alphabet, a consonant.
2. any spoken sound represented by the letter G or g, as in get, German, or camouflage.
3. something having the shape of a G.
4. a written or printed representation of the letter G or g.
5. a device, as a printer's type, for reproducing the letter G or g.

G

 
plural Gs or G's.
1. Slang. grand: a sum of one thousand dollars.
2. (sometimes lowercase) Aerospace. gravity: a unit of acceleration equal to the acceleration of gravity at the earth's surface.

G

 
1. gay.
2. Psychology. general intelligence.
3. German.
4. good.

G

 
Symbol.
1. the seventh in order or in a series.
2. Music.
a. the fifth tone in the scale of C major or the seventh tone in the relative minor scale, A minor.
b. a string, key, or pipe tuned to this tone.
c. a written or printed note representing this tone.
d. (in the fixed system of solmization) the fifth tone of the scale of C major, called sol.
e. the tonality having G as the tonic note.
3. (sometimes lowercase) the medieval Roman numeral for 400. Compare Roman numerals.
4. Electricity.
a. conductance.
b. gauss.
5. Physics. constant of gravitation. See under law of gravity.
6. Biochemistry.
a. glycine.
b. guanine.
7. general: a rating assigned to a motion picture by the Motion Picture Association of America indicating that the film is suitable for general audiences, or children as well as adults. Compare PG, PG-13, See R (def. 5), X (def. 8).

g

 
1. Psychology. general intelligence.
2. good.
3. gram; grams.
4. Electronics. grid.

g

 
Symbol, Physics.
1. acceleration of gravity.
2. gravity (def. 5).

G.

 
1. German.
2. gourde; gourdes.
3. (specific) gravity.
4. Gulf.

g.

 
1. gauge.
2. gender.
3. general.
4. generally.
5. genitive.
6. going back to.
7. gold.
8. grain; grains.
9. gram; grams.
10. Football. guard.
11. British. guinea.
12. gun.

Ger⋅man

  [jur-muhn]
–adjective
1. of or pertaining to Germany, its inhabitants, or their language.
–noun
2. a native or inhabitant of Germany.
3. a descendant of a native of Germany.
4. Also called High German. an Indo-European language that is based on a High German dialect, is official in Germany, Austria, and Switzerland, and is also widely used as an international language for scholarship and science. Abbreviation: G, G.
5. Linguistics. any variety of West Germanic speech native to Germany, Austria, or Switzerland.
6. (usually lowercase) an elaborate social dance resembling a cotillion.
7. (lowercase) New England and South Atlantic States. a dancing party featuring the german.
Origin:
1520–30; < L Germānus German; c. Gk Germanoí (pl.)

gourde

  [Fr. goord; Eng. goord]
–noun, plural gourdes  [Fr. goord; Eng. goordz] .
a paper money and monetary unit of Haiti, equal to 100 centimes. Abbreviation: G., Gde.
Origin:
1855–60; < F, n. use of fem. of gourd dull, slow, heavy < L gurdus dull, obtuse

gram

1  [gram]
–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; < F gramme < LL gramma a small weight < Gk grámma something drawn, a small weight
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acceleration of gravity  
n.   Abbr. g
The acceleration of freely falling bodies under the influence of terrestrial gravity, equal to approximately 9.81 meters (32 feet) per second per second.
con·duc·tance   (kən-dŭk'təns)   
n.   Symbol G
A measure of a material's ability to conduct electric charge; the reciprocal of the resistance.
g 1 or G   (jē)   
n.   pl. g's or G's also gs or Gs

  1. The seventh letter of the modern English alphabet.

  2. Any of the speech sounds represented by the letter g.

  3. The seventh in a series.

  4. Something shaped like the letter G.

  5. Music

    1. The fifth tone in the scale of C major or the seventh tone in the relative minor scale.

    2. A key or scale in which G is the tonic.

    3. A written or printed note representing this tone.

    4. A string, key, or pipe tuned to the pitch of this tone.

g 2  
abbr.  

  1. acceleration of gravity

  2. gram

G 1   (jē)   
A trademark used for a movie rating indicating that admission will be granted to persons of all ages.
G 2   (jē)   
n.   Slang
One thousand dollars: lost twenty Gs at the racetrack.

[g(rand), one thousand dollars.]
G 3  
The symbol for conductance.
G 4  
abbr.  

  1. gauss

  2. genitive

  3. gravitational constant

  4. guanine

gauss   (gous)   
n.   pl. gauss or gauss·es Abbr. G
The centimeter-gram-second unit of magnetic flux density, equal to one maxwell per square centimeter.

[After Karl Friedrich Gauss.]
gram 1   (grām)   
n.   Abbr. g or gm. or gr.
A metric unit of mass equal to one thousandth (10-3) of a kilogram. See Table at measurement.

[French gramme, from Late Latin gramma, a small weight, from Greek, something written, small weight; see gerbh- in Indo-European roots.]
gravitational constant  
n.   Abbr. G
The constant in Newton's law of gravitation that yields the force one body exerts on another when multiplied by the product of the masses of the two bodies and divided by the square of the distance between them. It equals 6.67 × 10-11 m3kg-1s-2.
gua·nine   (gwä'nēn')   
n.   Abbr. G
A purine base, C5H5ON5, that is an essential constituent of both RNA and DNA.

[From guano, in which it is found.]
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Cultural Dictionary

gram

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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Word Origin & History

German  (2)
"Teuton," 1530, from L. Germanus, first attested in writings of Julius Caesar, who used Germani to designate a group of tribes in northeastern Gaul, origin unknown, probably the name of an individual tribe. It is perhaps of Gaulish (Celtic) origin, perhaps originally meaning "noisy" (cf. O.Ir. garim "to shout") or "neighbor" (cf. O.Ir. gair "neighbor"). The earlier Eng. word was Almain or Dutch. Their name for themselves was the root word of modern Ger. Deutsch (see Dutch). Roman writers also used Teutoni as a German tribal name, and Latin writers after about 875 commonly refer to the German language as teutonicus. See also Alemanni. The German shepherd (dog) (1922) translates Ger. deutscher Schäferhund

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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Financial Dictionary

G

A Nasdaq stock symbol specifying that it is the first preferred bond of the company.

Investopedia Commentary

Nasdaq-listed securities have four or five characters. If a fifth letter appears, it identifies the issue as other than a single issue of common stock or capital stock.

See also: Convertible Bond, Nasdaq, Stock Symbol

Also spelled: G

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g

Used immediately following the stock name in stock transaction tables of newspapers to indicate that dividends and earnings are in Canadian currency but that the stock price is in U.S. dollars: Dome g .12.

Wall Street Words: An A to Z Guide to Investment Terms by David L. Scott.
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Medical Dictionary

Main Entry: g
Pronunciation: 'jE
Function: noun
Inflected Form: plural g's or gs /'jEz/
: a unit of forceequal to the force exerted by gravity on a body at rest and used to indicate the force to which a body is subjected when accelerated

Main Entry: g
Function: abbreviation
1 gauge
2 gender
3 gingival
4 glucose
5 grain
6 gram
7gravity; acceleration of gravity

Main Entry: G
Function: abbreviation
guanine

Main Entry: G
Pronunciation: "jE-'w&n-
Function: noun
: the period in the cell cycle from the end of cell division to the beginning of DNA replication—compare G M PHASE, S PHASE

Main Entry: G G2 phase
—see entries alphabetized as G ONE PHASE, G TWO PHASE

Main Entry: gram
Variant: or chiefly British gramme /'gram/
Function: noun
1 : a metric unit of mass equal to1/1000 kilogram and nearly equal to the mass of one cubic centimeter of water at its maximum density —abbreviation g
2 : the weight of a gramunder standard gravity

Main Entry: G
Pronunciation: "jE-'tü-
Function: noun
: the period in the cell cycle from the completion of DNA replication to the beginning of celldivision —compare G M PHASE, S PHASE
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g 1 (jē)
n.
A unit of acceleration equal to the acceleration caused by gravity at the earth's surface, about 9.8 meters (32 feet) per second per second.

g 2
abbr.
gram

G abbr.

  1. glucose

  2. gravitational constant

  3. guanine

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

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

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Science Dictionary
g  

  1. The symbol for acceleration of gravity.

  2. A symbol for g-force.

  3. Abbreviation of gram


G  

  1. The symbol for gauss.

  2. A symbol for g-force.

  3. The symbol for gravitational constant.

  4. Abbreviation of guanine


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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Computing Dictionary

G
1. The abbreviated form of giga-.
2. ["G: A Functional Language with Generic Abstract Data Types", P.A.G. Bailes, Computer Langs 12(2):69-94, 1987].
3. A language developed at Oregon State University in 1988 which combines functional programming, object-oriented programming, relational, imperative programming and logic programming (you name it we got it).
["The Multiparadigm Language G", J. Placer, Computer Langs 16:235-258, 1991].
[The Jargon File]
(1996-08-12)

The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing, © 1993-2007 Denis Howe
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Abbreviations & Acronyms
g

  1. acceleration of gravity

  2. gram

  3. -ing (shortwave transmission)

G

  1. conductance

  2. games played

  3. gauss

  4. gay (as in personal ads)

  5. general admission

  6. genitive

  7. German

  8. gigabyte

  9. good

  10. grand (that is, $1000)

  11. gravitational constant

  12. guanine

g
grin
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