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g/ʤiː/

▶abbreviation

• 1 Chemistry gas.

• 2 gelding.

• 3 gram(s).

▶symbol Physics the acceleration due to gravity (approximately 9.81 m s⁻²).

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G1 (also g)

▶noun (pl. Gs or G's)

• 1 the seventh letter of the alphabet.

• 2 denoting the next after F in a set of items, categories, etc.

• 3 Music the fifth note in the diatonic scale of C major.

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G2

▶abbreviation

• 1 Physics gauss.

• 2 giga- (10⁹).

• 3 N. Amer. informal grand (a thousand dollars).

• 4 the force exerted by the earth's gravitational field.

▶symbol

• 1 Chemistry Gibbs free energy.

• 2 Physics the gravitational constant (6.67 × 10⁻¹¹ N m² kg⁻²).

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gram1 (Brit. also gramme) (abbrev.: g)

▶noun a metric unit of mass equal to one thousandth of a kilogram.

– origin C18: from Fr. gramme, from late L. gramma ‘a small weight’, from Gk.

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gram2

▶noun chickpeas or other pulses used as food.

– origin C18: from Port. grão, from L. granum ‘grain’.

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gravitational constant (abbrev.: G)

▶noun Physics the constant in Newton's law of gravitation relating gravity to the masses and separation of particles, equal to 6.67 × 10⁻¹¹ N m² kg⁻².