g
abbreviation
general intelligence.
g
2
American
G
3
American
[jee]
/ dʒi /
Or
g
noun
G's,
plural
Gs,
plural
g's,
plural
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
Gs,
plural
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
7
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.
8
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.
9
American
G
1
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
2
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.
3
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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On Earth's surface, little g is about 9.8 m/s2.
From Science Daily ● May 18, 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
Traditional French bread and baguettes contained about 1.7 g of salt per 100 g, contributing roughly 2 g per person per day, or about 25% of total intake.
From Science Daily ● Jan. 31, 2026
So are the Seahawks gonna be any g…
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 8, 2024
Near 0 g the slightest motion sends our friends floating and tumbling up in the air.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
The unusual rotation of G 203-47 suggests that not all white dwarf and red dwarf pairs developed through the same process.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 15, 2026
G 203-47 also behaves differently from similar binary systems.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 15, 2026
Chief Executive Will Ahmed said at the time he expected the Series G to be the company’s last round of private financing.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 8, 2026
While bouncing between the G League and the NBA, James worked with coaches on developing his shooting confidence, quick decision-making and defensive ability.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 1, 2026
The order of sharps is: F sharp, C sharp, G sharp, D sharp, A sharp, E sharp, B sharp.
From "Understanding Basic Music Theory" by Catherine Schmidt-Jones and Russel Jones
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
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
The geochemists pick up samples of the surface soil at spaced intervals, e. g., every tenth of a mile, and analyze them for significant hydrocarbons.
From Time Magazine Archive
Although values for the largest specimens of H. g. gracilis are omitted from Plate 24, the regression remains essentially linear to standard lengths of approximately 250 mm.
From Geographic Variation in the North American Cyprinid Fish, Hybopsis gracilis by Cross, Frank B.
The first two episodes of Season 3 are out, and this week’s was particularly satisfying, Slate’s Jenny G. Zhang and Rebecca Onion write.
From Slate ● Jun. 30, 2026
This week data journalist G. Elliot Morris published a Strength In Numbers/Verasight poll that points to one strategy I think is important.
From Salon ● Jun. 28, 2026
He also urged them not to allow partnerships between large corporations and the military, the way the German scientific community and government did with I. G. Farben and Krupp Armaments and Steel.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 8, 2026
The experimental findings were supported by first-principles calculations based on density functional theory, performed by a theoretical team led by Dr. Maia G. Vergniory of the Donostia International Physics Center and Université de Sherbrooke.
From Science Daily ● Jun. 5, 2026
H. G. Wells died six years later in London, a few weeks before his eightieth birthday.
From "Spooked!" by Gail Jarrow
In Bad Bunny’s “DtMF” and Karol G’s “Tropicoqueta,” classic genres like salsa, plena and cumbia took center stage.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 24, 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
The name, of course, is a nod to team co-owner Warren G’s smooth 1994 chart-topper “Regulate,” which also featured fellow Long Beach native the late Nate Dogg, and celebrates Long Beach’s G-funk hip-hop roots.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 14, 2026
Wedding outfits rarely cost less than $29, meaning nearly every ensemble in Naresh G's store will attract a higher tax.
From BBC ● Sep. 21, 2025
I like to browse through the G’s confidently.
From "Franny and Zooey" by J. D. Salinger
However, most of the time his uniform still sports the Chinese transliteration, and Chinese-speaking broadcasters announce him using tonal Mandarin and soft Gs, rather than the hard Gs of the Indigenous tongue.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 2, 2023
Despite the elegance of the Gs and changing from one to five, the process of managing a network is as archaic as you could ever imagine.
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
Thousands of times longer than the cell that contains it, this intricate strand of As, Ts, Gs and Cs must fold itself into a compact package.
From Scientific American ● Apr. 8, 2022
The Gs in her name looked like nibbled Os.
From "Inkheart" by Cornelia Funke
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
He then jerked the stick to the side, pulling five g’s.
From The New Yorker ● Aug. 13, 2018
I think about the curling g's and c's she was so proud to mark on her pages and show Du Barry when we were little.
From "The Belles" by Dhonielle Clayton
“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
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
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
Oh, I was a bossy little thing, even though I couldn’t pronounce my gs properly!
From "Courage to Soar" by Simone Biles
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