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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

Such a dose is enough to prevent or reduce the growth of many microorganisms, but about 10,000 Gy is needed to kill salmonella, and even more is needed to kill fungi.

From Textbooks Aug. 12, 2015

Whatever effect mesmerism or electro-biology produces over the nerves and muscles of animated objects, this young Gy produced by the motions of her slender rod over the springs and wheels of lifeless mechanism.

From The Coming Race by Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron

Every ten years mankind's ener gy demands double.

From Time Magazine Archive

The stunned grimace on Duncan's face was all Scott needed to see to realize that he now had communicated the gist of the technolo- gy to him.

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

In the song quoted above one finds also:— p. 107Dewe reffa sowia an eglez ni, Ha an prounterian da eze et an gy, God save our churches and the good parsons that are in them. 

From A Handbook of the Cornish Language chiefly in its latest stages with some account of its history and literature by Jenner, Henry

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 Earle, Alice Morse

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 Schwartau, Winn

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