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Gy

American  

abbreviation

  1. Physics. gray.


gy British  

abbreviation

  1. Guyana

"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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Shwe Gy Thun Phyo, 14, has suffered from a brain injury, and has bloodshot eyes.

From BBC Apr. 2, 2025

My husband at the time was very connected with show business and worked with Bob Clark, who was writing with the show’s creator, Gy Waldron.

From Fox News Apr. 13, 2019

Exposure times of up to an hour expose food to doses up to 104 Gy .

From Textbooks Aug. 12, 2015

How many Gy of exposure is needed to give a cancerous tumor a dose of 40 Sv if it is exposed to α activity?

From Textbooks Aug. 12, 2015

Waer ik ook ben en vaer, Gy zyt my altyd naer.

From The Breitmann Ballads by Charles Godfrey Leland

Every ten years mankind's ener gy demands double.

From Time Magazine Archive

The three said their “All” just as in the Philadelphia sign-board, but the farmer answered:— “Of gy vecht, of gy bidt, of gy pleyt, Ik bin de boer die de eyeren layt.”

From Stage-coach and Tavern Days by Alice Morse Earle

C or cz is pronounced as English ts; cs as English ch; ds as English j; zs as French j; gy as dy.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 8 "Hudson River" to "Hurstmonceaux" by Various

Regular Short Sound of I, as in ill, marked i. sting piv'ot spring dif'fi dent bliss splin'ter twitch pin'a fore inch tin'der thick in'fa my strip wick'ed sphinx lit'ur gy 15.

From McGuffey's Eclectic Spelling Book by William Holmes McGuffey

He could envision, all at once, the entire grand strate- gy; how the myriad pieces effortlessly fit together and evolved into a picture perfect puzzle.

From Terminal Compromise: computer terrorism: when privacy and freedom are the victims: a novel by Winn Schwartau

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