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noun
1.
A metric unit of weight equal to one thousandth of a kilogram.  Synonyms: gm, gram, gramme.
2.
A purine base found in DNA and RNA; pairs with cytosine.  Synonym: guanine.
3.
One of the four nucleotides used in building DNA; all four nucleotides have a common phosphate group and a sugar (ribose).  Synonym: deoxyguanosine monophosphate.
4.
The cardinal number that is the product of 10 and 100.  Synonyms: 1000, chiliad, grand, K, M, one thousand, thou, thousand, yard.
5.
A unit of force equal to the force exerted by gravity; used to indicate the force to which a body is subjected when it is accelerated.  Synonyms: g-force, gee.
6.
A unit of information equal to 1000 megabytes or 10^9 (1,000,000,000) bytes.  Synonyms: GB, gigabyte.
7.
A unit of information equal to 1024 mebibytes or 2^30 (1,073,741,824) bytes.  Synonyms: GB, GiB, gibibyte, gigabyte.
8.
(physics) the universal constant relating force to mass and distance in Newton's law of gravitation.  Synonyms: constant of gravitation, gravitational constant, universal gravitational constant.
9.
The 7th letter of the Roman alphabet.



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"G" Quotes from Famous Books



... "G'wan!" says I. "I might have known it was a false alarm. Spotty Cahill! Say, do you want to know what I'd advise you to do for ...
— Odd Numbers - Being Further Chronicles of Shorty McCabe • Sewell Ford
... She wrote to Dr. G. S. Palmer, Surgeon of the Fifth Regiment Maine Volunteers, an old and valued friend, to offer her services in caring for the sick and wounded. His reply was quaint and characteristic. "There is no law at this end of the route, to prevent your coming; but the law of humanity ...
— Woman's Work in the Civil War - A Record of Heroism, Patriotism, and Patience • Linus Pierpont Brockett
... G., had he still been with us, would have revelled in opportunity for delivering an oration planned to scale! How his eloquence would have glowed over these fantastic figures! HERBERT HENRY ASQUITH (had he been consulted at the font, he ...
— Punch or the London Charivari, Vol. 147, November 25, 1914 • Various
... of the other fragments will be found in Holder's list. In 1855 M. Kall-Rasmussen found in the private archives at Kronborg a scrap of fourteenth century MS., containing a short passage from Bk. vii. Five years later G. F. Lassen found, at Copenhagen, a fragment of Bk. vi believed to be written in North Zealand, and in the opinion of Bruun belonging to the same codex as Kall-Rasmussen's fragment. Of another longish piece, found in Copenhagen at the end ...
— The Danish History, Books I-IX • Saxo Grammaticus ("Saxo the Learned")
... Mr. D. G. Rossetti, himself both an admirable translator and a distinguished poet, has in effect laid down the first law of rhythmical translation thus: 'Thou shalt not turn a good poem into a bad one.' Pope ...
— Obiter Dicta - Second Series • Augustine Birrell


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