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noun
- The seventh letter of the Appendix:Roman script, English alphabet, preceded by F and followed by H.
- (slang) A gangsta, gangster
- Abbreviation for Appendix:government spending, Government Spending.
initialism
- (sports) (baseball) the statistic reporting the number of games that a player has participated in
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initialism
- guardian, Guardian ad, Ad litem, Litem
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noun (plural gallons)
- A unit of volume, equivalent equivalent to eight pints or
- in the United Kingdom and Commonwealth of Nations exactly 4.54609 liters (an imperial gallon) and
- in the United States
- 231 cubic inches or approximately 3.785 liters for liquids (a U.S. liquid gallon) or
- one-eighth of a U.S. bushel or approximately 4.405 liters for dry goods (a U.S. dry gallon).
- (in plural gallons; colloquial) A large quantity (of any liquid).
- The pipe burst and gallons of water flooded into the kitchen.
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noun
- A measure; a standard of measure; an instrument to determine dimensions, distance, or capacity; a standard; an act of measuring.
- 2007. Zerzan, John. Silence. p. 2.
- : The record of philosophy vis-í -vis silence is generally dismal, as good a as any to its overall failure.
- Any instrument for ascertaining or regulating the level, state, dimensions or forms of things; as, a rain gauge; a steam gauge.
- The distance between the rails of a railway.
- (context, mathematics, analysis) A semi-norm; a function that assigns a non-negative size to all vectors in a vector space.
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abbreviation
- gigagram
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noun (rfc-level, Noun at L4+ not in L3 POS section)
- The breathing organ of fish and other aquatic animals.
- One of the radial folds on the underside of the cap of a mushroom, on the surface of which the spore-producing organs are borne.
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initialism
- gallons per minute
- (computing) general purpose mouse, the name of a piece of software
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initialism - Global Positioning System, a system which enables a mobile receiver to determine its precise location based on signals received from a constellation of US military satellites.
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abbreviation
- Digraph and internet code of Greece.
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noun
- (uncountable) The harvested seeds of various grass-related food crops eg: wheat, corn, barley.
- We stored a thousand tons of for the winter.
- (countable) A single seed of grain.
- a of wheat
- (context, countable, uncountable) The crops from which grain is harvested.
- The fields were planted with .
- (uncountable) A linear texture of a material or surface.
- Cut along the of the wood.
- (countable) A single particle of a substance.
- a of sand
- a of salt
- (uncountable) A very small unit of weight, in England equal to 1/480 of an ounce troy, 0.0648 grams or, to be more exact, 64.79891 milligrams. A carat grain or pearl grain is 1/4 carat or 50 milligrams. The old French grain was 1/9216 livre or 53.11 milligrams, and in the mesures usuelles permitted from 1812 to 1839, with the livre redefined as 500 grams, it was 54.25 milligrams.
- (materials) a region within a material having a single crystal structure or direction
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noun
- A unit of mass equal to one-thousandth of a kilogram.
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noun
- The total weight of a vehicle and its freight, fuel, passengers etc.
- The total weight of a product and its packaging.
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