gram
1[ gram ]
/ græm /
noun
a metric unit of mass or weight equal to 15.432 grains; one thousandth of a kilogram. Abbreviation: g
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- grains of paradise,
- grainy,
- grallatores,
- grallatorial,
- gralloch,
- gram atom,
- gram calorie,
- gram equivalent,
- gram molecule,
- gram's method
Also especially British, gramme.
Origin of gram
11790–1800; < French gramme < Late Latin gramma a small weight < Greek grámma something drawn, a small weight
gram
2[ gram ]
/ græm /
noun
(in the East Indies) the chickpea used as a food for people and cattle.
any of several other beans, as the mung bean, Vigna radiata (green gram or golden gram), or the urd, V. mungo (black gram).
Origin of gram
2Gram
[ grahm ]
/ grɑm /
noun
(in the Volsunga Saga) the sword of Sigmund, broken by Odin, repaired by Regin, and used again by Sigurd in killing Fafnir.
Compare Balmung.
Origin of Gram
From the Old Norse word Gramr literally, angry, evil
gram.
-gram
1a combining form occurring in loanwords from Greek, where it meant “something written,” “drawing” (epigram; diagram); on this model, used in the formation of compound words (oscillogram).
Compare -graph.
Origin of -gram
1-gram
2a combining form of gram1: kilogram.
-gram
3a combining form extracted from telegram, used in the formation of compound words that have the general sense “message, bulletin”: culturegram; electiongram; prophecy-gram.
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gram
1/ (ɡræm) /
noun
a metric unit of mass equal to one thousandth of a kilogram. It is equivalent to 15.432 grains or 0.002 205 poundsSymbol: g
Word Origin for gram
C18: from French gramme, from Late Latin gramma, from Greek: small weight, from graphein to write
noun
any of several leguminous plants, such as the beans Phaseolus mungo (black gram or urd) and P. aureus (green gram), whose seeds are used as food in India
the seed of any of these plants
Word Origin for gram
C18: from Portuguese gram (modern spelling grão), from Latin grānum grain
noun
(in India) a village
Word Origin for gram
Hindi
gram.
abbreviation for
grammar
grammatical
-gram
n combining form
indicating a drawing or something written or recordedhexagram; telegram
Word Origin for -gram
from Latin -gramma, from Greek, from gramma letter and grammē line
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gram
[ grăm ]
n.
A metric unit of mass equal to 15.432 grains, one thousandth (10-3) of a kilogram, or 0.035 ounce.
Gram
[ grăm, gräm ]
Danish physician who developed (1884) Gram's stain as a method of distinguishing types of bacteria.
-gram
suff.
Something written or drawn; a record:cardiogram.
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gram
[ grăm ]
A unit of mass in the metric system, equal to 0.001 kilogram or 0.035 ounce. See Table at measurement.
Gram
[ gräm, grăm ]
Danish bacteriologist who in 1884 developed a method of staining bacteria, called Gram's stain or Gram's dye, that is used to identify and classify bacteria, often from samples of infected body fluids. The classification, called gram-negative or gram-positive, can be useful in the initial selection of antibiotics to treat the infection.
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gram
The basic unit of measurement for mass in the metric system; one cubic centimeter of water has a mass of approximately one gram.
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