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Noun: g  jee
  1. The 7th letter of the Roman alphabet
    - G
     
  2. A metric unit of weight equal to one thousandth of a kilogram
    "A paperclip weighs about one g";
    - gram, gramme, gm
     
  3. A unit of force equal to the force exerted by gravity; used to indicate the force to which a body is subjected when it is accelerated
    "The astronauts experienced 3 g-forces during liftoff";
    - gee, g-force
Noun: G  jee
  1. A unit of information equal to 1000 megabytes or 10^9 (1,000,000,000) bytes
    - gigabyte, GB, gig [informal]
     
  2. A purine base found in DNA and RNA; pairs with cytosine
    "G is one of the four main nucleobases in the nucleic acids DNA and RNA";
    - guanine
     
  3. (physics) the universal constant relating force to mass and distance in Newton's law of gravitation
    "The gravitational constant G is approximately 6.674 × 10⁻¹¹ N(m/kg)²"; "The universal gravitational constant G is approximately 6.674 × 10⁻¹¹ N(m/kg)²"; "The constant of gravitation G is approximately 6.674 × 10⁻¹¹ N(m/kg)²";
    - gravitational constant, universal gravitational constant, constant of gravitation
     
  4. One of the four nucleotides used in building DNA, also known as deoxyguanylate, or dGMP; all four nucleotides have a common phosphate group and a sugar (ribose)
    - deoxyguanosine monophosphate
     
  5. A unit of information equal to 1024 mebibytes or 2^30 (1,073,741,824) bytes
    "The hard drive had a capacity of 500 Gs";
    - gigabyte, gibibyte, GB, GiB, gig [informal]
     
  6. The cardinal number that is the product of 10 and 100
    - thousand, one thousand, 1000, M, K, thou [informal]

Derived forms: gs, Gs

Type of: alphabetic character, base, computer memory unit, constant, force unit, large integer, letter, letter of the alphabet, metric weight unit, nucleotide, purine, weight unit

Part of: dag [archaic], decagram, dekagram [N. Amer], deoxyribonucleic acid, desoxyribonucleic acid, DNA, jag, Latin alphabet, law of gravitation, Newton's law of gravitation, ribonucleic acid, RNA, Roman alphabet, TB, tebibyte, terabyte, TiB

Encyclopedia: G, Paul