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GBS

British  

abbreviation

  1. George Bernard Shaw

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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GBS machines rely on photons, the basic particles of light, to generate probability calculations that would require thousands of years for even the fastest classical supercomputer to complete.

From Science Daily • Dec. 1, 2025

"In just a few minutes on a laptop, the methods developed allow us to determine whether a GBS experiment is outputting the correct answer and what errors, if any, are present."

From Science Daily • Dec. 1, 2025

To demonstrate their approach, the researchers applied it to a recently published GBS experiment that would take at least 9,000 years to reproduce using current supercomputers.

From Science Daily • Dec. 1, 2025

The outbreak in Pune is being traced to a pathogen called campylobacter jejuni, a leading cause of foodborne infections, and the biggest driver of GBS worldwide.

From BBC • Feb. 3, 2025

I began to go through the manuscript unifying—and then I noticed that in a single paragraph of his Bernard Shaw Gilbert uses "GBS," "Shaw," "Bernard Shaw," and "Mr. Shaw."

From Gilbert Keith Chesterton by Ward, Maisie