g

¹ American  

abbreviation

1. Psychology. general intelligence.

2. good.

3. gram; grams.

4. Electronics. grid.

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g ² American  

Symbol, Physics.

1. acceleration of gravity.

2. gravity.

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G ³ American  

[jee] / dʒi /

Or g

noun

plural

G's, Gs, g's, 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.

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G ⁴ American  

[jee] / dʒi /

noun

plural

Gs, G's

1. Aerospace. gravitational force: Sometimes g

   The pilot pulled 3 Gs during the steep dive.

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G ⁵ American  

abbreviation

1. Trademark. general: a rating assigned to a movie by the MPA indicating that the film is suitable for general audiences, or children as well as adults.

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G ⁶ American  

abbreviation

1. Informal. grand: a sum of one thousand dollars.

2. gay.

3. Psychology. general intelligence.

4. German.

5. good.

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G ⁷ American  

Symbol.

1. the seventh in order or in a series.

2. Music.

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

   2. a string, key, or pipe tuned to this tone.

   3. a written or printed note representing this tone.

   4. (in the fixed system of solmization) the fifth tone of the scale of C major, called sol.

   5. the tonality having G as the tonic note.

3. (sometimes lowercase) the medieval Roman numeral for 400.

4. Electricity.

   1. conductance.

   2. gauss.

5. Physics, Astronomy. gravitational constant.

6. Biochemistry.

   1. glycine.

   2. guanine.

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g. ⁸ American  

abbreviation

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.

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G. ⁹ American  

abbreviation

1. German. Also G

2. gourde; gourdes.

3. (specific) gravity.

4. Gulf.

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G ¹ British  

symbol

1. music

   1. a note having a frequency of 392 hertz ( G above middle C ) or this value multiplied or divided by any power of 2; the fifth note of the scale of C major

   2. a key, string, or pipe producing this note

   3. the major or minor key having this note as its tonic

2. gauss

3. gravitational constant

4. physics conductance

5. biochem guanine

6. German

7. Gibbs function

8. giga

9. good

10. slang grand (a thousand dollars or pounds)

11. 1. general exhibition (used to describe a category of film certified as suitable for viewing by anyone)

    2. ( as modifier )

       a G film

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g ² British  

symbol

1. gallon(s)

2. gram(s)

3. acceleration of free fall (due to gravity) near the surface of the earth

4. grav

5. chess See algebraic notation

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G. ³ British  

abbreviation

1. Gulf

2. guilder(s)

3. guinea(s)

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g ⁴ British  

/ dʒiː /

noun

1. the seventh letter and fifth consonant of the modern English alphabet

2. a speech sound represented by this letter, in English usually either a voiced velar stop, as in grass, or a voiced palato-alveolar affricate, as in page

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Example Sentences

If the targets were fully met, average daily salt intake would have fallen from about 6.1 g to 4.9 g.

From Science Daily • Jan. 31, 2026

EUC stands for Equivalent Umami Concentration, which is the umami concentration in a food expressed in mg/100 g.

From Science Daily • Apr. 29, 2024

So are the Seahawks gonna be any g…

From Seattle Times • Apr. 8, 2024

The controversy surrounds a song which says the "g" in the word vegan stands for gassy and the "a for anaemic or annoying".

From BBC • Dec. 7, 2023

If we lived in an interstellar spacecraft that could accelerate at 1 g, we would find ourselves in a perfectly natural environment.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan

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