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- In architecture, G sometimes labels a call button in elevators and may refer to either the "ground floor" or "garage floor".
- In astronomy,
- G stands for a yellowish class of stars in the Morgan-Keenan system
- G is a provisional designation prefix for any comet, asteroid, or minor planet discovered between April 1 and 15 of a year.
- In aviation, "g's" are the colloquial term for the perceived factor of increase in the force of gravity on the aircraft or pilot due to acceleration during maneuvers. See also "g" in physics below.
- In biochemistry,
- In the CGS system of units, capital G is the symbol for the unit of magnetic induction, the gauss.
- In computer games,
- In computing, G is a binary prefix for giga, meaning 230 = 1,073,741,824 (cf. G as an SI or metric prefix, given below).
- In economics, G is usually used to represent government spending or government expenditure.
- In electrical engineering, G is often used as the name of the variable for electrical conductance.
- In engineering, G can refer to the Shear Modulus, a mechanical property of materials.
- In English slang,
- G is short for a "grand", which is itself a slang term for a thousand currency units.
- G may refer to the drug GHB.
- G is a slang term for women, originating in Syrian-American circles.
- G is often a term in street slang for "Gangsta".
- The spoken "g" is a common way to refer to a gram of a substance in the illegal drug trade; although this is derived from the SI symbol for gram, it would be unusual to say "g" rather than "gram" in any other context in speech.
- In film,
- In finance, G is the New York Stock Exchange ticker symbol for The Gillette Company
- In Freemasonry,
The Masonic Square and Compasses the letter G is often found in the Masonic Square and Compasses symbol. Its meaning is sometimes attributed, without authority, to the word "God" or the word "geometry". - In genetics G is a human mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) haplogroup & G is also a Y-chromosomal DNA (Y-DNA) haplogroup.
- In international licence plate codes, G stands for Gabon.
- In international relations, G is often used with a number to refer to a group of nations with a common interest, such as the G8, G10, G20, and G77.
- In literature, G. is the title of a novel by John Berger, awarded the Booker Prize in 1972.
- In music,
- In navigation, GEE is a British radio navigation device used during World War II.
- In programming languages, G is the graphical programming language used in LabVIEW.
- In physics,
- G (always in uppercase) is the gravitational constant.
- g (always in lowercase, ambiguous with the following) is a unit of acceleration.
- g or gn (always lower case) nominal acceleration due to gravity at sea level (on earth).
- As the first letter of a postal code,
- In psychometrics, g (always in lowercase) is the symbol for general intelligence.
- In radio communication,
- In the RGB color model, G stands for the color green.
- In sexology, the G-spot is a part of the vagina that allegedly causes an orgasm when stimulated.
- In the SI and metric systems of units:
- an upright capital G is the SI prefix for giga, meaning 109 = 1,000,000,000 (cf. G as a binary prefix in computing listed above).
- an upright lowercase g is the symbol for a unit of mass, the gram.
- In sports,
- In statistics, G-tests are a type of statistical likelihood ratio test.
- In television,
- G is the TV Rating that stands for "general", meaning the program is appropriate for everyone.
- G is an abbreviated nickname of Andrew G, an Australian television personality.
- In thermodynamics, the symbol G refers to Gibbs free energy.
- G is used to refer to the color Green in the card game, Magic: The Gathering.
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