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g [n]
 
1)a metric unit of weight equal to one thousandth of a kilogram
    Synonyms :gm gram gramme 
    See Also: metric_weight_unit  dag  obolus  carat 
 
2)a purine base found in DNA and RNA; pairs with cytosine
    Synonyms :guanine 
    See Also: purine  deoxyribonucleic_acid  ribonucleic_acid 
 
3)one of the four nucleotides used in building DNA; all four nucleotides have a common phosphate group and a sugar (ribose)
    Synonyms :deoxyguanosine_monophosphate 
    See Also: nucleotide 
 
4)the cardinal number that is the product of 10 and 100
    Synonyms :1000 chiliad grand k m one_thousand thou thousand yard 
    See Also: large_integer 
 
5)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
    Synonyms :g-force gee 
    See Also: force_unit 
 
6)a unit of information equal to one billion (1,073,741,824) bytes or 1024 megabytes
    Synonyms :gb gigabyte 
    See Also: t  computer_memory_unit  mb 
 
7)(physics) the universal constant relating force to mass and distance in Newton's law of gravitation
    Synonyms :constant_of_gravitation gravitational_constant universal_gravitational_constant 
    See Also: constant  law_of_gravitation  natural_philosophy 
 
8)the 7th letter of the Roman alphabet
    Synonyms :
    See Also: alphabetic_character  latin_alphabet 
 

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing: (http://www.foldoc.org/, Editor Denis Howe)

1. ["G: A Functional Language with Generic Abstract Data Types", P.A.G. Bailes, Computer Langs 12(2):69-94 (1987)].

2. A language developed at Oregon State University in 1988 which combines functional programming, object-oriented programming, relational, imperative and logic programming (you name it we got it).

["The Multiparadigm Language G", J. Placer, Computer Langs 16:235-258(1991)].

3. The abbreviated form of giga-.

[Jargon File]

(1996-08-12)



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