GM

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GM is most commonly seen as an abbreviation for:

• General Motors Corporation, an American automobile manufacturing company
• Genetically modified, (a living thing) having its DNA intentionally changed for a particular outcome
• Metacentric height, characteristic of a ship primarily determining its stability in the water.
• Geiger-Müller counter / Geiger-Müller tube, the most common instrument for measuring ionizing radiation

In astronomy,

• the product GM is the standard gravitational parameter.

GM is also an abbreviation for:

• George Michael, British singer
• Gary Moore, an Irish guitarist
• The Republic of The Gambia, a country in Africa (ISO 3166 diagram)
• Grandmaster (chess) or International Grandmaster, a chess ranking
• Grand Marquis, a Ford Mercury automobile marque
• General Mills, a food manufacturing company
• General manager of an organisation, including sporting teams
• Game Maker, a computer game developing program
• Gamemaster or Game Master, in play-by-mail games and role-playing games
• Gamemaster (board game series), a series of board games created by Milton Bradley
• GamesMaster (magazine), a video game publication in the UK
• Garry's Mod, a modification for the computer game Half Life 2
• The General MIDI standard specification
• Göttinger Miszellen, a German scientific journal on Egyptology
• Gold medal. In the UK rifle shooting community, a person who has won Her Majesty the Queen's Prize at Bisley, Surrey may subsequently put the letters GM ('gold medal') after his/her name
• Goppert-Mayer unit, the unit used for measure of two-photon cross-section, equal to 10^-50 cm⁴ s
• Grammatical modality, the mode in which the grammar of a sentence is constructed
• Gross margin, profit as a percentage of sales price
• The RGM-79 GM mobile suit and its successors in the anime series Mobile Suit Gundam
• GM1, a Ganglioside important in brain biochemistry
• A Unified Soil Classification System symbol for silty gravel
• Good Morning.
• GM chassis

Gm may mean:

• gigametre, an SI unit of length equal to 10⁹ (1,000,000,000) metres.

gm may mean:

• An historical (now erroneous) abbreviation for gram (the correct symbol is g).