G (disambiguation)

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G is the seventh letter of the alphabet. It can also refer to:

• In architecture, G sometimes labels a call button in elevators and may refer to either the "ground floor" or "garage floor".
• In astronomy,
  • G stands for a yellowish class of stars in the Morgan-Keenan system
  • G is a provisional designation prefix for any comet, asteroid, or minor planet discovered between April 1 and 15 of a year.
• In aviation, "g's" are the colloquial term for the perceived factor of increase in the force of gravity on the aircraft or pilot due to acceleration during maneuvers (see g-force). See also g in physics below.
• In biochemistry,
  • G is the symbol for glycine and guanosine.
  • G is a type of protein.
• In the CGS system of units, capital G is the symbol for the unit of magnetic induction, the gauss.
• In the CGS and SI systems of units, lowercase g is the symbol for the unit of mass.
• In computer games,
  • G is a character in Sega's House of the Dead series of arcade games. His full name is believed to be 'Gaiden.'
  • G is the head secret agent who hands out the player's missions in the game Club Penguin.
  • G represents currency in some computer role-playing games, meaning gold.
  • G is the class of gnomes and g is a gremlin in the Roguelike game NetHack.
• In computing, G is a binary prefix for giga, meaning 2³⁰ = 1,073,741,824 (cf. G as an SI or metric prefix, given below).
• In economics, G is usually used to represent government spending or government expenditure.
• In electrical engineering, G is often used as the name of the variable for electrical conductance.
• In engineering, G can refer to the Shear Modulus, a mechanical property of materials.
• In English slang,
  • G is short for a "grand", which is itself a slang term for a thousand currency units.
  • G may refer to the drug GHB.
  • G is a slang term for women, originating in Syrian-American circles.
  • G is often a term in street slang for "Gangster".
  • The spoken "g" is a common way to refer to a gram of a substance in the illegal drug trade; although this is derived from the SI symbol for gram, it would be unusual to say "g" rather than "gram" in any other context in speech.
• In film,
  • G is a rating given by the Motion Picture Association of America, meaning the film is suitable for all ("general") audiences.
  • G is a 1974 British film.
  • G is a 2002 American independent film, later released to movie theaters in 2005.
  • G stands for the most popular kaiju, Godzilla.
• In finance, G is the New York Stock Exchange ticker symbol for The Gillette Company
• In Freemasonry,
  

  

  The Masonic Square and Compasses
  the letter G is often found in the Masonic Square and Compasses symbol. It is the first letter of both the acronym "GAOT" (Greatest Architect(s) Of Our Time, the Freemason name for the Supreme Being(s)) and the word "geometry".
• In genetics G is a human mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) haplogroup & G is also a Y-chromosomal DNA (Y-DNA) haplogroup.
• In international licence plate codes, G stands for Gabon.
• In international relations, G is often used with a number to refer to a group of nations with a common interest, such as the G8, G10, G20, and G77.
• In literature, G. is the title of a novel by John Berger, awarded the Booker Prize in 1972.
• In music,
  • G is a note.
  • G is a solo album by Gerald Levert released in 2000.
  • G stands for "gangsta", particularly in lyrics within the gangsta rap genre.
  • G! Festival is a music festival in Gøta, Faroe Islands.
• In navigation, GEE is a British radio navigation device used during World War II.
• In programming languages, G is the graphical programming language used in LabVIEW.
• In physics,
  • G (always in uppercase) is the gravitational constant.
  • lowercase, italic g is the standardised acceleration due to gravity at the surface of the Earth at 45 degrees lattitude.
• As the first letter of a postal code,
  • In Canada, G stands for the eastern part of Quebec.
  • In the United Kingdom, G stands for Glasgow.
• In psychometrics, g (always in lowercase) is the symbol for general intelligence.
• In radio communication,
  • G is one of the ITU prefixes allocated to the United Kingdom.
  • the G band is the range of frequencies from 4 to 6 GHz.
• In the RGB color model, G stands for the color green.
• In sexology, the G-spot is a part of the vagina that allegedly causes an orgasm when stimulated.
• In the SI and metric systems of units:
  • an upright capital G is the SI prefix for giga, meaning 10⁹ = 1,000,000,000 (cf. G as a binary prefix in computing listed above).
  • an upright lowercase g is the symbol for a unit of mass, the gram.
• In sports,
  • G is often an abbreviation for Goals or Goals Scored in score keeping.
  • The G is the popular colloquial name for the Melbourne Cricket Ground.
• In statistics, G-tests are a type of statistical likelihood ratio test.
• In television,
  • G is the TV Rating that stands for "general", meaning the program is appropriate for everyone.
  • G is an abbreviated nickname of Andrew G, an Australian television personality.
• In thermodynamics, the symbol G refers to Gibbs free energy.
• G is used to refer to the color Green in the card game, Magic: The Gathering.