noun, plural G’s or Gs, g’s or gs.
- the seventh letter of the English alphabet, a consonant.
- any spoken sound represented by the letter G or g, as in get, German, or camouflage.
- something having the shape of a G.
- a written or printed representation of the letter G or g.
- a device, as a printer’s type, for reproducing the letter G or g.
Symbol, Physics.
plural Gs or G’s.
- Slang. grand: a sum of one thousand dollars.
- (sometimes lowercase) Aerospace. gravity: a unit of acceleration equal to the acceleration of gravity at the earth’s surface.
Symbol.
- the seventh in order or in a series.
- Music.
- the fifth tone in the scale of C major or the seventh tone in the relative minor scale, A minor.
- a string, key, or pipe tuned to this tone.
- a written or printed note representing this tone.
- (in the fixed system of solmization) the fifth tone of the scale of C major, called sol.
- the tonality having G as the tonic note.
- (sometimes lowercase) the medieval Roman numeral for 400.Compare Roman numerals.
- Electricity.
- conductance.
- gauss.
- Physics. constant of gravitation.See under law of gravitation.
- Biochemistry.
- glycine.
- guanine.
- general: a rating assigned to a motion picture by the Motion Picture Association of America indicating that the film is suitable for general audiences, or children as well as adults.Compare PG, PG-13, R1, X(def 8).
- gauge.
- gender.
- general.
- generally.
- genitive.
- going back to.
- gold.
- grain; grains.
- gram; grams.
- Football. guard.
- British. guinea.
- gun.
noun plural g’s, G’s or Gs
- the seventh letter and fifth consonant of the modern English alphabet
- 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
symbol for
- gallon(s)
- gram(s)
- acceleration of free fall (due to gravity) near the surface of the earth
- grav
- chess See algebraic notation
symbol for
- music
- 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
- a key, string, or pipe producing this note
- the major or minor key having this note as its tonic
- gauss
- gravitational constant
- physics conductance
- biochem guanine
- German
- Gibbs function
- giga
- good
- slang, mainly US grand (a thousand dollars or pounds)
- (in Australia)
- general exhibition (used to describe a category of film certified as suitable for viewing by anyone)
- (as modifier)a G film
abbreviation for
- Gulf
- guilder(s)
- guinea(s)
for history of the letter’s development, see C. As a movie rating in the U.S., 1966, standing for general. Standing for gravity in physics since 1785.
abbr.
- glucose
- gravitational constant
- guanine
- The symbol for acceleration of gravity.
- A symbol for g-force.
- Abbreviation of gram
- The symbol for gauss.
- A symbol for g-force.
- The symbol for gravitational constant.
- Abbreviation of guanine