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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The 7th letter of the Roman alphabet
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("G" is a kind of...):
alphabetic character; letter; letter of the alphabet (the conventional characters of the alphabet used to represent speech)
Holonyms ("G" is a member of...):
Latin alphabet; Roman alphabet (the alphabet evolved by the ancient Romans which serves for writing most of the languages of western Europe)
Sense 2
Meaning:
(physics) the universal constant relating force to mass and distance in Newton's law of gravitation
Synonyms:
constant of gravitation; G; gravitational constant; universal gravitational constant
Classified under:
Nouns denoting quantities and units of measure
Hypernyms ("G" is a kind of...):
constant (a number representing a quantity assumed to have a fixed value in a specified mathematical context)
Domain category:
natural philosophy; physics (the science of matter and energy and their interactions)
Holonyms ("G" is a part of...):
law of gravitation; Newton's law of gravitation ((physics) the law that states any two bodies attract each other with a force that is directly proportional to the product of their masses and inversely proportional to the square of the distance between them)
Sense 3
Meaning:
A unit of information equal to 1024 mebibytes or 2^30 (1,073,741,824) bytes
Synonyms:
G; GB; GiB; gibibyte; gigabyte
Classified under:
Nouns denoting quantities and units of measure
Hypernyms ("G" is a kind of...):
computer memory unit (a unit for measuring computer memory)
Meronyms (parts of "G"):
M; MB; mebibyte; megabyte; MiB (a unit of information equal to 1024 kibibytes or 2^20 (1,048,576) bytes)
Holonyms ("G" is a part of...):
TB; tebibyte; terabyte; TiB (a unit of information equal to 1024 gibibytes or 2^40 (1,099,511,627,776) bytes)
Sense 4
Meaning:
A unit of information equal to 1000 megabytes or 10^9 (1,000,000,000) bytes
Synonyms:
G; GB; gigabyte
Classified under:
Nouns denoting quantities and units of measure
Hypernyms ("G" is a kind of...):
computer memory unit (a unit for measuring computer memory)
Meronyms (parts of "G"):
M; MB; megabyte (a unit of information equal to 1000 kilobytes or 10^6 (1,000,000) bytes)
Holonyms ("G" is a part of...):
TB; terabyte (a unit of information equal to 1000 gigabytes or 10^12 (1,000,000,000,000) bytes)
Sense 5
Meaning:
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:
Classified under:
Nouns denoting quantities and units of measure
Hypernyms ("g" is a kind of...):
force unit (a unit of measurement of physical force)
Sense 6
Meaning:
A metric unit of weight equal to one thousandth of a kilogram
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Nouns denoting quantities and units of measure
Hypernyms ("g" is a kind of...):
metric weight unit; weight unit (a decimal unit of weight based on the gram)
Meronyms (parts of "g"):
obolus (a Greek unit of weight equal to one tenth of a gram)
carat (a unit of weight for precious stones = 200 mg)
Holonyms ("g" is a part of...):
dag; decagram; dekagram; dkg (10 grams)
Sense 7
Meaning:
The cardinal number that is the product of 10 and 100
Synonyms:
1000; chiliad; G; grand; K; M; one thousand; thou; thousand; yard
Classified under:
Nouns denoting quantities and units of measure
Hypernyms ("G" is a kind of...):
large integer (an integer equal to or greater than ten)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "G"):
millenary (a sum or aggregate of one thousand (especially one thousand years))
Sense 8
Meaning:
One of the four nucleotides used in building DNA; all four nucleotides have a common phosphate group and a sugar (ribose)
Synonyms:
deoxyguanosine monophosphate; G
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("G" is a kind of...):
base; nucleotide (a phosphoric ester of a nucleoside; the basic structural unit of nucleic acids (DNA or RNA))
Sense 9
Meaning:
A purine base found in DNA and RNA; pairs with cytosine
Synonyms:
G; guanine
Classified under:
Nouns denoting substances
Hypernyms ("G" is a kind of...):
purine (any of several bases that are derivatives of purine)
Holonyms ("G" is a substance of...):
deoxyribonucleic acid; desoxyribonucleic acid; DNA ((biochemistry) a long linear polymer found in the nucleus of a cell and formed from nucleotides and shaped like a double helix; associated with the transmission of genetic information)
ribonucleic acid; RNA ((biochemistry) a long linear polymer of nucleotides found in the nucleus but mainly in the cytoplasm of a cell where it is associated with microsomes; it transmits genetic information from DNA to the cytoplasm and controls certain chemical processes in the cell)
Context examples:
Low and intermediate antibody responses to 1 and 10 g BSA, respectively.
(A28807, Rat Strain, NCI Thesaurus)
Morphologically, adenocarcinomas are classified according to the growth pattern (e.g., papillary, alveolar) or according to the secreting product (e.g., mucinous, serous).
(Adenocarcinoma, NCI Thesaurus)
By G—, you are just in time!
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
A taxonomic phylum within kingdom Bacteria consisting of gram-positive soil bacteria with a high G+C ratio.
(Actinobacteria, NCI Thesaurus)
Members of the G protein-coupled superfamily of receptors.
(Melatonin Receptor, NCI Thesaurus)
Certain bases pair with each other—A with T and C with G—to form units called base pairs.
(Expanding the Genetic Alphabet, NIH)
Such malignant neoplasms may be carcinomas (e.g. breast, colon), lymphomas, melanomas, or sarcomas.
(Metastatic Malignant Neoplasm to the Liver, NCI Thesaurus)
These are represented by the letters A, C, G and T. Sometimes, changes occur in the ‘spelling’ of our DNA – an A becomes a G, for example.
(‘Fingerprint database’ could help scientists to identify new cancer culprits, University of Cambridge)
A traditional unit of length defined as the number of opening per inch of a screen, e.g. the number of strands or particles per inch.
(Mesh, NCI Thesaurus)
An anti-carcinoembryonic antigen (anti-CEA) murine monoclonal immunoglobulin G (IgG) with potential antineoplastic activity.
(Monoclonal Antibody IMMU-14, NCI Thesaurus)
