g
abbreviation
general intelligence.
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American
G
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American
[jee]
/ dʒi /
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g
noun
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G's,
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Gs,
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g's,
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gs
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the seventh letter of the English alphabet, a consonant.
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any spoken sound represented by the letter G or g, as in get, German, or camouflage.
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something having the shape of a G .
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a written or printed representation of the letter G or g.
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a device, as a printer's type, for reproducing the letter G or g.
G
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[jee]
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Gs,
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G's
plural
G
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abbreviation
G
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Informal. grand: a sum of one thousand dollars.
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gay.
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Psychology. general intelligence.
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good.
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Symbol.
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the seventh in order or in a series.
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Music.
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the fifth tone in the scale of C major or the seventh tone in the relative minor scale, A minor.
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a string, key, or pipe tuned to this tone.
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a written or printed note representing this tone.
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(in the fixed system of solmization) the fifth tone of the scale of C major, called sol.
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the tonality having G as the tonic note.
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(sometimes lowercase) the medieval Roman numeral for 400.
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Electricity.
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Physics, Astronomy. gravitational constant.
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Biochemistry.
g.
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abbreviation
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gauge.
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gender.
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general.
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generally.
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genitive.
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going back to.
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gold.
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grain; grains.
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gram; grams.
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Football. guard.
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British. guinea.
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gun.
G.
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G
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symbol
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music
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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
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a key, string, or pipe producing this note
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the major or minor key having this note as its tonic
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gauss
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gravitational constant
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physics conductance
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biochem guanine
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German
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Gibbs function
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giga
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good
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slang grand (a thousand dollars or pounds)
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general exhibition (used to describe a category of film certified as suitable for viewing by anyone)
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( as modifier )
a G film
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g
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symbol
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gallon(s)
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gram(s)
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acceleration of free fall (due to gravity) near the surface of the earth
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grav
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chess See algebraic notation
G.
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Gulf
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guilder(s)
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guinea(s)
g
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/ dʒiː /
noun
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the seventh letter and fifth consonant of the modern English alphabet
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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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Near Earth's surface, little g is approximately 9.8 meters per second squared.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 20, 2026
Physicists also use little g, but the two quantities describe very different things.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 20, 2026
On the Moon, where gravity is weaker because the Moon has less mass, little g is only about 1.62 m/s2.
From Science Daily ● May 18, 2026
This process results in roughly 9.5 g of glucose being used.
From Science Daily ● Apr. 17, 2026
For the case of a dropped ball, x = gt2/2, where g is the acceleration due to gravity.
From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife
“For those of us whose life circumstances have created options A, B, C, D, E, F and G, she might have options A and B,” El-Sayed said of the anecdote, which couldn’t be independently verified.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 22, 2026
To him, the G in AGI matters as much as the AI itself.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 21, 2026
Staines-upon-Thames resident Alex Balkan, who campaigned for a statue of Ali G in the town, says the character remains a source of local pride.
From BBC ● Oct. 20, 2026
Earlier this month, more than 300 fans attended an official Ali G lookalike competition, ferried around London on an open-top bus that stopped at landmarks including Big Ben, Leicester Square and Covent Garden.
From BBC ● Oct. 20, 2026
After coffee, Watson capitulated: perhaps the backbone was on the outside, and the bases—A, T, G, and C—faced in, apposed against each other.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
The diagnosis was based on established assessments that included e. g. memory and language tasks.
From Science Daily ● Mar. 27, 2024
They can't because no one will loan them the money to keep spending. g. powell in reply to fundamentalist May 2nd 2013 18:06 GMT The ECB can provide that money.
From Economist ● May 2, 2013
Full employment should be the objective in Europe. fundamentalist in reply to g. powell May 2nd 2013 18:46 GMT The current crisis is the direct result of such thinking in the past.
From Economist ● May 2, 2013
His criticism of other witnesses, including his superiors, was most outspoken, e. g.:
From Time Magazine Archive
Ecologically, H. g. gulonella seems to be the counterpart of Semotilus atromaculatus in streams where the latter species is absent.
From Geographic Variation in the North American Cyprinid Fish, Hybopsis gracilis by Frank B. Cross
I think I liked the opening sip, but I didn’t split the G. I don’t know what kind of face I made.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 14, 2026
“No one is stronger than Helga G. Pataki,” one Reddit user wrote.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 7, 2026
Year: 2023 Compiled by: Jenny G. Zhang, Slate Staff Of note: Accompanied by a version of this list “as chosen by TV writers and showrunners.”
From Slate ● Oct. 7, 2026
An increase in the rate of the payroll tax from 12.4% to 13.4%, meanwhile, would close about 23% of the funding gap, according to the Peter G. Peterson Foundation.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 24, 2026
Would Mrs. G. have smiled so patronizingly at the Enigma codebreakers during World War II who were trying to figure out how to stop Nazi subs from sinking Allied ships?
From "The Strangers" by Margaret Peterson Haddix
The project brought together researchers from the Wellcome Sanger Institute, U of G's Ontario Veterinary College, the University of Bern and other institutions.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 27, 2026
The soundtrack sets a more accurate tone right away with a gentle cover of R.E.M.’s “Nightswimming” that segues into Alex G’s dreamy synths.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 6, 2026
You joined Karol G’s band at Coachella this year — how did that happen?
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 12, 2026
Thomas P pleaded not guilty and Kerstin G's parents told the court she had been "really active" in mountaineering since 2020.
From BBC ● Feb. 28, 2026
“I knew you’d like it,” laughed the letter man, popping two G’s and an R into his mouth and letting the juice drip down his chin.
From "The Phantom Tollbooth" by Norton Juster
The maneuver subjected the airframe to an estimated 3 Gs of force, akin to what a spacecraft experiences during launch, and exceeded the 737 MAX’s operating limit of 2.5 Gs.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 3, 2026
It had big gold Gs on the front, which, to her, “felt really gaudy” after a couple of years.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 13, 2023
Nothing has changed in the way we deploy networks when the Gs change, even now in 2022.
From The Verge ● Aug. 9, 2022
Sleek jet fighters streak into the sun, with the pilots of the F-35 Lightning IIs and F-22 Raptors pulling heavy Gs as they perform high-speed maneuvers against an unseen enemy.
From Washington Times ● Jun. 8, 2022
In September, a team of FBI "Super Gs," or specially trained surveillance agents, landed in Santa Fe, New Mexico, near Howard's home.
From "Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia" by Marc Favreau
The idea is to ensure that the seat – and passenger – would survive a brief exposure to 16 g’s.
From BBC ● Sep. 5, 2024
For people, an impact of about 135 g’s produces a concussion.
From Scientific American ● Jul. 14, 2022
It seems like they were planning for some kind of outcry here so that they could quickly replace these g’s, because none of the other letters have this.
From Slate ● Aug. 13, 2021
The facility, known as nastar, features a massive centrifuge that spins at about sixty miles an hour, creating gravitational loads that can exceed nine g’s.
From The New Yorker ● Aug. 13, 2018
"He pulled twelve g's on the ascent. Give him a few minutes."
From "The Martian" by Andy Weir
“It was 3.2 gs, man,” Norris Burkes, a passenger on Flight 8535, told Answer Man.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 30, 2019
An automobile suspension is designed to withstand forces of about two gs as it smooths out the bumps in the road.
From New York Times ● Aug. 22, 2014
Its screen records characters exactly the way you write them, helping me nail those pesky gs and 9s.
From Time Magazine Archive
The men at the mahogany desks," says Stapp, "thought that the human body would never take more than 18 gs.
From Time Magazine Archive
Actually, I first called them “Hamma” and “Hampaw” because I was only three years old and couldn’t enunciate my gs.
From "Courage to Soar" by Simone Biles
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