- g.
- 1. gauge.2. gender.3. general.4. generally.5. genitive.6. going back to.7. gold.10. Football. guard.11. Brit. guinea.12. gun.
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1. the seventh letter of the English alphabet. There are two g's in egg.2. any sound represented by this letter.3. (used as a symbol for) the seventh (of an actual or possible series): »row G in a theater.
4. a grade in some schools that stands for good, usually equivalent to a B.5. Music. a) the fifth tone of the scale of C major. b) a symbol representing this tone. c) a key, string, etc., that produces this tone. d) the scale or key that has G as its keynote: »a concerto in G.
6. Physics. acceleration of gravity (about 32 feet per second per second, the unit of force exerted on a body by the pull of gravity. The force exerted on a body at rest at the earth's surface is 1 G). An accelerating body may experience a force of several Gs. »As the sled decelerated, [he] was subjected to more than 40 times the pull of gravity (40 gs); his normal weight of 168½ lbs. momentarily shot up to 6,740 lbs. (Time).
anything shaped like the letter G.U.S. Slang. a thousand dollars: »His phone bill alone last year must have come to twenty Gs (Maclean's).
g (no period),an abbreviation or symbol for the following:1. Electricity. conductance.2. Psychology. general intelligence.3. giga-.4. gilbert or gilberts.5. grain.6. gram or grams.g.,an abbreviation or symbol for the following:1. gauge.2. gender.3. genitive.4. goalie.5. grain.6. gram or grams.7. gravity.G (no period),an abbreviation for the following:1. Electricity. conductance.2. General (a symbol used in the United States for motion pictures recommended to the general public).3. German.4. the universal constant of gravitation (6.67 × 10―8 dyne cm.2 gram―2).5. guanine.6. specific gravity.G.,1. German.2. gulf.
Useful english dictionary. 2012.
