Gem

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Gem generally refers to a gemstone, a cut rock or mineral.

Gem may also refer to:

Literature and television

• Gem, a female character in "The Empath" (1968), an episode of the original Star Trek series
• Gem, a female character in Tron: Legacy
• Gemma Reeves, a female character on the Australian soap opera Neighbours, nicknamed "Gem"
• "Gem," a 2006 episode of the television series The Inside
• The Gem, an early 20th-century British story paper
• Gems, a fictional race of sentient gemstone-like creatures from the animated television series Steven Universe

Music

• Gem (American band), an indie rock band formed by Doug Gillard and Tim Tobias of Guided by Voices
• Gem (Dutch band), an indie rock group from the Netherlands
• "The Gem," a song by Priestess from the album Prior to the Fire

Places

United States

• Gem, California, a former settlement
• Gem, Kansas, a city
• Gem County, Idaho
• Gem, Indiana, a small town
• Gem, Kansas, a small town
• Gem, West Virginia, an unincorporated community
• Gem Glacier, Glacier National Park, Montana
• Gem Valley, Idaho
• Gem Lake (Flathead County, Montana)
• Lake Gem (Florida)

Elsewhere

• Gem, Alberta, Canada, a hamlet
• Gem Lake (Vancouver Island), British Columbia, Canada
• Gem Constituency, Kenya, an electoral constituency

Transport

• Gem (automobile), manufactured in Michigan between 1917 and 1919
• Rolls-Royce Gem, a helicopter engine made by Rolls-Royce
• Gem 4/4, an electro-diesel locomotive class of Rhaetian Railway, Switzerland

Computing

• Gem, a package format of the RubyGems package manager for the Ruby programming language library
• Gem, a codename (intended for use internally) for the PlayStation Move controller
• Gem, a Bitcoin platform for developers, founded in 2014 by Micah Winkelspecht

People

• Gem Archer (born 1966), English musician with the rock band Oasis
• Harry Gem (1819–1881), English lawyer, soldier, writer and sportsman

Other uses

• Gem (moth), a moth of the family Geometridae
• Billbergia 'Gem', a hybrid cultivar
• USS Gem (SP-41), a United States Navy patrol vessel in commission from 1917 to 1919
• "Gem," a paper clip design of which most paper clips are variations
• Gem Theater, Deadwood, South Dakota, a 19th-century saloon
• Gem Theatre, Detroit, Michigan, on the National Register of Historic Places
• Gem Saloon, Thompson Falls, Montana, on the National Register of Historic Places

See also

• GEM (disambiguation)
• Jem (disambiguation)