g
abbreviation
general intelligence.
g
2
American
G
3
American
[jee]
/ dʒi /
Or
g
noun
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G's,
plural
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Gs,
plural
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g's,
plural
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gs
plural
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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
4
American
[jee]
/ dʒi /
noun
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Gs,
plural
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G's
plural
G
5
American
abbreviation
G
6
American
abbreviation
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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.
G
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American
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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American
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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American
G
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British
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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British
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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British
abbreviation
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Gulf
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guilder(s)
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guinea(s)
g
4
British
/ 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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Big G is not the only letter g associated with gravity.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 20, 2026
Near Earth's surface, little g is approximately 9.8 meters per second squared.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 20, 2026
Little g refers to the acceleration an object experiences because of the gravitational attraction of a nearby large body such as Earth.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 20, 2026
Newton's law of gravity contains both a "big G" and a "little g," but they describe different things.
From Science Daily ● May 18, 2026
But that couldn’t work, because the third and fifth letters were the same according to the cipher, and in Pigpen those letters were g and e.
From "Book Scavenger" by Jennifer Chambliss Bertman
Yet for some, Ali G is a relic of the past whose cultural appropriation is no longer funny.
From Barron's ● Oct. 23, 2026
"The joke of Ali G is that he was a maximally clueless white-bro poseur," the review continued.
From Barron's ● Oct. 23, 2026
“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
At the words Picture Day, my grandmother’s face lights up a bit—like the old G I used to know.
From "Popcorn" by Rob Harrell
The diagnosis was based on established assessments that included e. g. memory and language tasks.
From Science Daily ● Mar. 27, 2024
Forget about the long-term, the crisis is now. g. powell in reply to shaun39 May 2nd 2013 18:46 GMT Your comment sounds like a bunch of nonsense to me.
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
But among "small time" porters and station "red-caps," there is a glossary, e. g.:
From Time Magazine Archive
Specimens of H. g. gulonella collected in the Arkansas River at Pueblo and Florence, Colorado, on September 7, 1959, include some tuberculate males, although most females are spent.
From Geographic Variation in the North American Cyprinid Fish, Hybopsis gracilis by Frank B. Cross
Jonathan G. Stine also contributed to the research.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 21, 2026
Instead of basking in the wealth he had amassed as a banker and financier, Mellon accepted a summons from President-elect Warren G. Harding and got on a train to Marion, Ohio.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 19, 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
The cafe will join the new building’s yet-to-be announced restaurant, which is already holding private events including a recent unveiling of an Ed Ruscha-designed poster for Alejandro G. Iñárritu’s new film, “Digger.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 5, 2026
Not short short long, but long long short—not U but G. Flag tower.
From "The Mysterious Benedict Society" by Trenton Lee Stewart
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
Karol G’s highly anticipated Coachella headlining set is finally here.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 13, 2026
"When we grow spring onions in the UK, 60% of the cost is labour," says Derek Wilkinson, managing director at G's Fresh.
From BBC ● Feb. 18, 2026
Hearing about Rosa Parks and her protest showed me that there is hope for me and all the students in Ms. G’s classes to truly be catalysts for change.
From "The Freedom Writers Diary" by The Freedom Writers
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
These Gs — Sam is one of them — that at their age, they’ve conquered so much, you still have to love it.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 19, 2024
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 fact, I start feeling uncomfortable at about 8 Gs, with a pain developing in the center of my chest.
From "Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story" by Michael Collins
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 compression here—an abrupt transition to flatter, rutted terrain—creates a force of more than three g’s.
From The New Yorker ● Apr. 22, 2019
Only Momma could decipher the lacy handwriting with its long, tall letters all bunched together and the lines running into one another because of the long-tailed, fancy z’s and f’s and g’s.
From "Homecoming" by Cynthia Voigt
“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
Somewhere along his rise from sewer worker to political boss of Chicago, Edward Joseph Kelly learned not to drop his gs, acquired a hard, shining polish.
From Time Magazine Archive
The wind hit his body with a force of 8,000 Ibs., and he felt deceleration of 40 gs, so that his organs weighed 40 times normal.
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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