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G¹

(jē)

A trademark for a movie rating indicating that admission will be granted to persons of all ages.

G²

(jē)

n. Slang

One thousand dollars: lost twenty Gs at the racetrack.

[g(rand), one thousand dollars.]

G³

The symbol for conductance.

G⁴

abbr.

1. gauss

2. genitive

3. goal

4. goalkeeper

5. gravitational constant

6. guanine

7. Football guard

g¹

or G (jē)

n. pl. g's or G's also gs or Gs

1. The seventh letter of the modern English alphabet.

2. Any of the speech sounds represented by the letter g.

3. The seventh in a series.

4. Something shaped like the letter G.

5. Music

a. The fifth tone in the scale of C major or the seventh tone in the relative minor scale.

b. A key or scale in which G is the tonic.

c. A written or printed note representing this tone.

d. A string, key, or pipe tuned to the pitch of this tone.

g²

abbr.

1. acceleration of gravity

2. gram

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g

(dʒiː) or

G

n, pl g's, G's or Gs

1. (Linguistics) the seventh letter and fifth consonant of the modern English alphabet

2. (Phonetics & Phonology) a speech sound represented by this letter, in English usually either a voiced velar stop, as in grass, or a voiced palato-alveolar affricate, as in page

g

symbol for

1. (Units) gallon(s)

2. (Units) gram(s)

3. (General Physics) acceleration of free fall (due to gravity) near the surface of the earth

4. (Units) grav

5. (Chess & Draughts) chess See algebraic notation

G

symbol for

1. (Classical Music) music

a. a note having a frequency of 392 hertz (G above middle C) or this value multiplied or divided by any power of 2; the fifth note of the scale of C major

b. a key, string, or pipe producing this note

c. the major or minor key having this note as its tonic

2. (Units) gauss

3. (General Physics) gravitational constant

4. (General Physics) physics conductance

5. (Biochemistry) biochem guanine

6. (Languages) German

7. (Peoples) German

8. (Placename) German

9. (Chemistry) Gibbs function

10. (General Physics) giga

11. good

12. slang chiefly US grand (a thousand dollars or pounds)

13. (Film) (in Australia)

a. general exhibition (used to describe a category of film certified as suitable for viewing by anyone)

b. (as modifier): a G film.

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G, g

(dʒi)

n., pl. Gs G's, gs g's.

1. the seventh letter of the English alphabet, a consonant.

2. any spoken sound represented by this letter.

3. something having the shape of a G.

4. a written or printed representation of the letter G or g.

G

pl. Gs G's.

Slang. grand: a sum of one thousand dollars.

G

1. gay.

2. general: a motion-picture rating advising that the film is suitable for general audiences, or for children as well as adults. Compare NC-17, PG, PG-13, R (def. 4), X (def. 7).

3. German.

4. good.

G

Symbol.

1. the seventh in order or in a series.

a. the fifth note of the C major scale.

b. a tonality having G as the tonic.

3. conductance.

4. constant of gravitation.

5. gauss.

6. Biochem.

a. glycine.

b. guanine.

g

1. good.

2. gram.

3. (sometimes cap.) gravity: a unit of acceleration equal to the acceleration of gravity at the earth's surface.

g

Symbol.

acceleration of gravity.

G.

1. German.

2. gourde.

3. Gulf.

g.

1. gauge.

2. gender.

3. general.

4. genitive.

5. going back to.

6. gold.

7. grain.

8. gram.

9. Football. guard.

10. Brit. guinea.

11. gun.

g

1. Abbreviation of gram

2. The symbol for acceleration of gravity.

3. A symbol for g-force.

G

1. A symbol for g-force.

2. The symbol for gravitational constant.

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g

A unit of acceleration in free fall due to gravity. On Earth this is about 32 feet per second per second (9.81 m/sec2).

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Noun	1.	g - a metric unit of weight equal to one thousandth of a kilogram gm, gram, gramme metric weight unit, weight unit - a decimal unit of weight based on the gram obolus - a Greek unit of weight equal to one tenth of a gram carat - a unit of weight for precious stones = 200 mg dag, decagram, dekagram, dkg - 10 grams
	2.	G - a purine base found in DNA and RNA; pairs with cytosine guanine purine - any of several bases that are derivatives of purine deoxyribonucleic acid, desoxyribonucleic acid, DNA - (biochemistry) a long linear polymer found in the nucleus of a cell and formed from nucleotides and shaped like a double helix; associated with the transmission of genetic information; "DNA is the king of molecules" ribonucleic acid, RNA - (biochemistry) a long linear polymer of nucleotides found in the nucleus but mainly in the cytoplasm of a cell where it is associated with microsomes; it transmits genetic information from DNA to the cytoplasm and controls certain chemical processes in the cell; "ribonucleic acid is the genetic material of some viruses"
	3.	G - one of the four nucleotides used in building DNA; all four nucleotides have a common phosphate group and a sugar (ribose) deoxyguanosine monophosphate nucleotide, base - a phosphoric ester of a nucleoside; the basic structural unit of nucleic acids (DNA or RNA)
	4.	G - the cardinal number that is the product of 10 and 100 1000, chiliad, grand, one thousand, thou, thousand, K, M, yard large integer - an integer equal to or greater than ten millenary - a sum or aggregate of one thousand (especially one thousand years)
	5.	g - 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 gee, g-force force unit - a unit of measurement of physical force
	6.	G - a unit of information equal to 1000 megabytes or 10^9 (1,000,000,000) bytes gigabyte, GB computer memory unit - a unit for measuring computer memory megabyte, MB, M - a unit of information equal to 1000 kilobytes or 10^6 (1,000,000) bytes terabyte, TB - a unit of information equal to 1000 gigabytes or 10^12 (1,000,000,000,000) bytes
	7.	G - a unit of information equal to 1024 mebibytes or 2^30 (1,073,741,824) bytes GiB, gibibyte, gigabyte, GB computer memory unit - a unit for measuring computer memory mebibyte, MiB, megabyte, MB, M - a unit of information equal to 1024 kibibytes or 2^20 (1,048,576) bytes tebibyte, TiB, terabyte, TB - a unit of information equal to 1024 gibibytes or 2^40 (1,099,511,627,776) bytes
	8.	G - (physics) the universal constant relating force to mass and distance in Newton's law of gravitation constant of gravitation, gravitational constant, universal gravitational constant law of gravitation, Newton's law of gravitation - (physics) the law that states any two bodies attract each other with a force that is directly proportional to the product of their masses and inversely proportional to the square of the distance between them natural philosophy, physics - the science of matter and energy and their interactions; "his favorite subject was physics" constant - a number representing a quantity assumed to have a fixed value in a specified mathematical context; "the velocity of light is a constant"
	9.	g - the 7th letter of the Roman alphabet Latin alphabet, Roman alphabet - the alphabet evolved by the ancient Romans which serves for writing most of the languages of western Europe alphabetic character, letter of the alphabet, letter - the conventional characters of the alphabet used to represent speech; "his grandmother taught him his letters"

Translations

g

A. ABBR =gram(s), gramme(s) → g, gr

B. N ABBR =gravity → g
G-force → fuerza f de la gravedad

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G

g [ˈdʒiː] n

(= letter) → G, g m
G for Golf → G comme Gaston

(MUSIC) G → sol m

G

[ˈdʒiː] n abbr

(British) (SCHOOL) (=good) → b(= bien)

(US) (CINEMA) (=general (audience)) → tous publics

G8 (POLITICS) → G8 m

a G (US) (= a thousand dollars) → mille dollars mpl (British) (= a thousand pounds) → mille livres fpl

g

[ˈdʒiː] abbr

(=gram) → g

(=gravity) → g

G

, g

→ G nt, → g nt

g’s pl (= gravitational force) → g nt

G (US inf: = one thousand dollars) → tausend Dollar pl

(Mus) → G nt, → g nt; G sharp → Gis nt, → gis nt; G flat → Ges nt, → ges nt ? major, minor

G

(US) abbr of general audience (Film) → jugendfrei

g

abbr of gram(s), gramme(s) → g

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G

g [dʒiː] n

a. (letter) → G, g f or m inv
G for George → G come Genova

b. (Mus) → sol m

G

[dʒiː] n abbr

a. (Brit) (Scol) (mark) =good → buono

b. (Austrl) (Cine) =general audience → per tutti

g

[dʒiː] abbr

a. =gram → g

b. =gravity

g

written abbreviation

gram(me); grams.

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