Gram (disambiguation)

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Gram is a unit of measurement of mass.

Gram may also refer to:

Places

• Gram (Denmark), a town
• Gram municipality, a municipality in Denmark
• Grand Rapids Art Museum (popularly known by its acronym GRAM), an art museum in Michigan

People

• Hans Gram (1754-1804), Danish-American musician
• 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
• Rod Grams (1948–2013), American politician
• Gram Parsons (1946–1973), American singer and musician
• Abbreviation for grandmother

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
• Grams: Penny Halliwell, grandmother of the Charmed Ones on the WB television series Charmed
• The name given to the lance of Gallantmon

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
• GRAM, Graphic (GPL) Random Access Memory, used in the TI-99/4A
• Gram, a wholly owned subsidiary of Hewlett Packard, based on their acquisition of Palm, Inc.

Agriculture and horticulture

• Gram, a former name for chickpeas, applied with adjectives to a variety of lentils pulses:
  • Bengal gram = Chickpea
  • Black gram = Urad
  • Green gram = Mung bean and some forms of urad
  • Horse gram
  • Madras gram = Horse gram
  • Red gram = Pigeon pea
  • Turkish gram = Moth bean
  • White gram = soybean
• Gram, the abbreviation for the orchid genus Grammatophyllum

Government

• Gram panchayat, a local government division in India.

See also

• Gran (disambiguation)
• Grandmother
• Graham (disambiguation)
• Gramm (disambiguation)