| galvanic |
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adjective
- Of or pertaining to galvanism; electric
- The shocking news prompted a reaction
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| galvanism |
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noun
- The chemical generation of electricity.
- The therapeutic use of electricity.
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| galvanometer |
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noun - (physics) a device used to indicate the presence and direction of a small electric current, especially used to detect a null or balanced condition in a bridge circuit
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| galvanoscope |
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noun
- a device used to detect electric currents using the deflection of a magnetic needle
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| gauss |
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noun - The unit of magnetic field strength in cgs systems of units, equal to 0.0001 tesla.
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| generator |
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noun
- An apparatus, equipment, etc, to convert or change energy from one form to another.
- A machine that converts mechanical energy into electrical energy.
- One who, or that which, generates, begets, causes, or produces.
- An apparatus in which vapour or gas is formed from a liquid or solid by means of heat or chemical process, as a steam boiler, gas retort etc.
- (music) The principal sound or sounds by which others are produced; the fundamental note or root of the common chord; -- see also generating tone.
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| GeV |
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initialism
- (physics) giga-electron volt, 109 eV. A unit used for measuring the energy of subatomic particles.
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| gigaelectron volt |
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noun
- One thousand million electron volts, abbreviated as GeV?.
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| gigahertz |
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noun (gigahertz)
- One billion hertz, 109 Hz.
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| gigawatt |
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noun
- One thousand million ( 109 ) watts, abbreviated as GW.
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| Gilbert |
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proper noun
- (given name, male)
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| grid |
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noun
- A rectangular array of squares or rectangles of equal size, such as in a crossword puzzle.
- A system for delivery of electricity, consisting of various substations, transformers and generators, connected by wire.
- You can't turn off the building from here; you have to shut down the whole . — line from the motion picture w:Die Hard, Die Hard
- (computing) A system or structure of distributed computers working mostly on a peer-to-peer basis, such structures being known as a computational grid or simply grid computing, and used mainly to solve single and complex scientific or technical problems or to process data at high speeds (as in clusters).
- (cartography) A method of mark off, marking off maps into areas.
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