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proper noun
- (baseball) A player on the team the "San Francisco Giants".
- A player on the team the "New York Giants".
Giants
- (baseball) The team w:San Francisco Giants, The San Francisco Giants.
- The team w:New York Giants, The New York Giants.
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noun
- A mythical human of very great size
- (mythology) Specifically, any of the Gigantes, the race of giants in the Greek mythology.
- A very tall person.
- (astronomy) A star that is considerably more luminous than a main sequence star of the same temperature (eg. red giant, blue giant).
- (computing) An Ethernet packet that exceeds the medium's maximum packet size of 1,518 bytes.
Translations: - Dutch: reus
- French: géant
- German: Riese
(trans-mid)
- Italian: colosso
(trans-mid)
- Spanish: gigante
adjective (no (compar) or (superl))
- Very large.
Translations: - Dutch: reusachtig, reuzen- (in compounds)
- German: riesig
(trans-mid)
Etymology: Via Middle English from Old French, ultimately from Latin gigas; compare French géant
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