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, in Denmark
Grand Rapids Art Museum (popularly known by its acronym GRAM), in Michigan

People

Hans Gram (composer) (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 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
The name given to the lance of Gallantmon

Science and technology

GRAM domain, related to membrane-associated proteins
Gram staining, a method of distinguishing bacteria
Gram, a Hewlett Packard subsidiary formed from their acquisition of Palm, Inc.
GRAM, Generally Recognized as Mature, related to Open-source software/Free and open-source software
GRAM, Graphic (GPL) Random Access Memory, used in the TI-99/4A
Gram's theorem, in algebraic geometry
Gram–Schmidt process, in linear algebra
Gramian matrix, in linear algebra
Grams (search) - darknet market search engine
Grid Resource Allocation Manager, a component of the Globus Toolkit in grid computing

Agriculture and horticulture

A South Asian term for whole pulses, as opposed to dals which are split pulses. Examples include:
- Bengal gram (chickpea), from which gram flour can be made
- Black gram (urad)
- Green gram (mung bean)
- 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

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