Gram (disambiguation)

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Gram is a unit of measurement of mass. Otherwise, "gram" may refer to:

Contents 1 Places 2 People 3 Mythology and fiction 4 Science and technology 5 Agriculture and horticulture 6 See also

[edit] Places

• Gram (Denmark), a town in Denmark
• Gram municipality, a municipality in Denmark
• Gram Castle, a castle in Denmark
• Mount Gram, Albania

[edit] People

• Zénobe Gramme (1826 – 1901), Belgian electrical engineer
• Jørgen Pedersen Gram (1850 – 1916), Danish mathematician and actuary
• Hans Christian Gram (1853 – 1938), Danish scientist who invented Gram staining
• Peder Gram (1881 – 1956), Danish composer and organist
• Jason Gram (born 1984), Australian rules footballer

• Gram Parsons (1946 – 1973), American singer and musician

[edit] Mythology and fiction

• Gram (mythology), a sword in Norse mythology
• Gram of Denmark, a legendary Danish king
• Gram (Middle-earth), a King of Rohan from J. R. R. Tolkien's fiction
• Mount Gram (Middle-earth), a fictional place in Tolkien's writings

[edit] Science and technology

• Gram staining, a method of distinguishing bacteria
• GRAM domain, a domain found in some membrane-associated proteins
• Grid Resource Allocation Manager, a component of the Globus Toolkit in grid computing
• Gramian matrix, used in mathematics to test for linear independence of functions

[edit] Agriculture and horticulture

• Gram, from Latin granum (seed) via Portuguese and then languages of the Indian subcontinent, is sometimes used to refer to chickpeas and other pulses
  • Green gram = Mung bean
  • Bengal gram = Chickpea
  • Red gram = Pigeon pea
  • Black gram = urad
  • Horse gram
• It may also refer to a lentil
• Gram, the abbreviation for the orchid genus Grammatophyllum

[edit] See also

• Gran
• Grandmother
• Graham
• Gramm