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gal

1[gal]
–noun Informal.
a girl or woman.

Origin:
1785–95; orig. dial. pron. of girl


See girl.

gal

2[gal]
–noun
a centimeter-gram-second unit of acceleration, equal to one centimeter per second per second.

Origin:
1910–15; named after Galileo

Gal.

gal.

gallon; gallons.
gal 1   (gāl)   
n.   Informal
A girl.

[Alteration of girl.]
gal 2   (gāl)   
n.  The centimeter-gram-second unit of acceleration, equal to one centimeter per second per second.

[After Galileo Galilei.]

gal 
slang pronunciation of girl, 1795, execrated as a Cockney vulgarism. Gal Friday is 1940, in reference to "Robinson Crusoe."
Language Translation for : gal
Spanish: mal, torcido,
German: verkehrt,
Japanese: 誤って

Main Entry: GAL
Function: abbreviation
guardian ad litem

Main Entry: gal
Function: abbreviation
1 galactose
2 gallon

GAL hardware
Generic Array Logic.
(1995-12-09)

GAL
get a life

gal

unit of acceleration, named in honour of the Italian physicist and astronomer Galileo Galilei (1564-1642) and used especially in measurements of gravity. One gal equals a change in rate of motion of one centimetre (0.3937 inch) per second per second.

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