G Definition

jē
noun
The seventh letter of the English alphabet: from the Greek gamma, a borrowing from the Phoenician.
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Any of the speech sounds that this letter represents, as, in English, the (g) of get or (j) of gem.
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A type or impression for g or G.
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The seventh in a sequence or group.
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An object shaped like G.
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Synonyms:
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abbreviation
Gram(s)
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Game(s)
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Gauge.
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Gauss(es)
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Genitive.
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adjective
Of g or G.
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Seventh in a sequence or group.
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Shaped like G.
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symbol
Conductance.
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(metrology) Symbol for the gigaohm, an SI unit of electrical resistance equal to 109 ohms.

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(analysis, topology) A countable intersection of open sets.

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(computing) The ASCII control character bell in caret notation.

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letter

The seventh letter of the English alphabet, called gee and written in the Latin script.

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The seventh letter of the English alphabet, called gee and written in the Latin script.

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numeral

The ordinal number seventh, derived from this letter of the English alphabet, called gee and written in the Latin script.

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Origin of G

  • G, the initial letter of each of the component words of the noun phrase + ³, representing the alliterative tripling of the g initials

    From Wiktionary

  • From German Gebiet (“neighborhood”) for 'G' and German Durchschnitt (“intersection”) for the 'δ'.

    From Wiktionary

  • g(rand) one thousand dollars

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

G Sentence Examples

  • When the band moves to the C chord, you slide your fingers along the same strings until you're at the eighth fret of the E (which is C) and the ninth fret of the G (which is E) and you've created the same sort of harmony for the G chord.

  • The thermal G G detectors are especially useful for the purpose of quantitative measurements, because they indicate the true effective or square root of mean square value of the current or train of oscillations passing through the hot wire.

  • Induction is the strictest phase, and recommends eating fewer than 20 g of carbohydrates per day from low carb foods, including animal proteins, leafy green vegetables, and full-fat dairy products such as butter, heavy cream, and cheese.

  • The histology described above for the polyp may be taken as the primitive type, from which that From Allman's G y mnoblastic Hydroids, by permission of the Council of the Ray Society.

  • Ch is always to be sounded as in church, g is always hard; y always represents a consonant; whilst kh and gh stand for gutturals.

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