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.
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
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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.
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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Near Earth's surface, little g is approximately 9.8 meters per second squared.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 20, 2026
Big G is not the only letter g associated with gravity.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 20, 2026
Men consuming between 20 g per week and 20 g per day and women consuming between 20 g per week and 10 g per day were considered to have low alcohol consumption.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 9, 2026
On Earth's surface, little g is about 9.8 m/s2.
From Science Daily ● May 18, 2026
Do you know the differences between indentured servitude and g slavery?
From "An Indigenous People’s History of the United States" by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
Digger is directed by Alejandro G Iñárritu, best known for films such as Birdman, Babel and The Revenant.
From BBC ● Oct. 12, 2026
Baron Cohen, 54, is known for his self-created comic characters including infamous spoof wannabe gangster Ali G, Kazakh reporter Borat Sagdiyev, and Austrian fashionista Brüno Gehard.
From BBC ● Oct. 11, 2026
Cyera had raised $600 million in a Series G round in June.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2026
The L.A. native was the Portland Trail Blazers’ player development coach and the assistant general manager of the team’s G League affiliate Rip City Remix.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026
Maybe something like, “Your career? I end it. Your G status as authentic as them gems in your pendant.”
From "On the Come Up" by Angie Thomas
The diagnosis was based on established assessments that included e. g. memory and language tasks.
From Science Daily ● Mar. 27, 2024
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
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
The four Stage One Recruits will roar into life, concentrating their 160,000 lbs. of thrust on the small rocket and snapping it upward with 70 g. of acceleration.
From Time Magazine Archive
The head of the creek subspecies is deeper and longer than that of H. g. gracilis, being rounded anteriorly when seen in sideview.
From Geographic Variation in the North American Cyprinid Fish, Hybopsis gracilis by Frank B. Cross
While condo buyers aren’t forced to participate, some say this rarely seen financing tool sticks them with a risk, reports Nicholas G. Miller.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 13, 2026
Frank G. Brotz’s Kohler Electric Sink, which incorporated a motorized dishwasher into the familiar basin, promised release from the “thrice-daily drudgery” of washing dishes.
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
Horrified, he describes the creature the way H. G. Wells did in his novel—the leathery skin, the tentacles, the quivering mouth.
From "Spooked!" by Gail Jarrow
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
"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
G's Cool Spot was well known among locals and British holidaymakers visiting the costal town of Black River in St Elizabeth.
From BBC ● Dec. 16, 2025
I thanked her for comforting me and went on to Ms. G’s class.
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
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 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 hasn’t rained in months,” she said, her Tuscan Italian full of soft g’s and c’s.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 4, 2021
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
When the gravity approaches a billion g’s, something still more strange happens.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
“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
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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