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Gc

1. gigacycle; gigacycles.
2. gigacycles per second.
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Gc  
abbr.  gigacycle
gig·a·cy·cle   (gĭg'ə-sī'kəl, jĭg'-)   
n.   Abbr. Gc
See gigahertz.
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Medical Dictionary

Main Entry: GC
Function: abbreviation
1 gas chromatograph; gas chromatography
2 gonococcus
Merriam-Webster's Medical Dictionary, © 2002 Merriam-Webster, Inc.
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Computing Dictionary

GC
1. garbage collection.
2. A storage allocator with garbage collection by Hans-J. Boehm and Alan J. Demers. Gc is a plug-in replacement for C's malloc. Since the collector does not require pointers to be tagged, it does not attempt to ensure that all inaccessible storage is reclaimed.
Version 3.4 has been ported to Sun-3, Sun-4, Vax/BSD, Ultrix, Intel 80386/Unix, SGI, Alpha/OSF/1, Sequent (single threaded), Encore (single threaded), RS/600, HP-UX, Sony News, A/UX, Amiga, NeXT.
(ftp://parcftp.xerox.com/pub/russell/gc3.4.tar.Z).
(2000-04-19)

The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing, © 1993-2007 Denis Howe
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Abbreviations & Acronyms
Gc
gigacycle
GC
  1. gas chromatograph

  2. gas chromatography

  3. guanine and cytosine (base pair in polynucleic acids)

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