Glasses Glasses, spectacles, or eyeglasses are frames bearing lens worn below the forehead and in front of the human eyes, sometimes for purely aesthetic reasons but normally for Corrective lens or eye protection. Special glasses are used for viewing stereoscopy or experiencing virtual reality.
	Glasshouses Glasshouses is a small village in Nidderdale, North Yorkshire. It lies about 1 mile south east of Pateley Bridge on the east side of Nidderdale and has a recently rebuilt river bridge across the river River_Nidd. The old twine mill, on the banks of the River_Nidd, now houses a number of small businesses.
	Glassworks Glassworks is an album by Philip Glass with 5 pieces, released under CBS/Sony Classical in 1982. It is regarded as being a characteristically Glass-like set of works. Facades has its origins in the film score Koyaanisqatsi, but this piece was ultimately not used in the film.
	Glasswort The glassworts comprise the genus Salicornia of succulent, halophyte plants that grow in salt marshes, on beaches, and among mangroves. Glasswort species are native to the United States and Europe. Glassworts are also known as marsh samphire; the term samphire]] is used for several unrelated species of coastal plant.
	Glaucium Glaucium is a genus of about 25 species of Annual plant, biennial or perennial herbaceous flowering plants in the family Papaveraceae, native to Europe, north Africa, and southwest and central Asia. The species commonly occur in saline habitats, including coasts and salt pans.
	Glaucoma Glaucoma is a group of diseases of the optic nerve involving loss of ganglion cell in a characteristic pattern of optic atrophy. Although raised intraocular pressure is a significant risk factor for developing glaucoma, there is no set threshold for intraocular pressure that causes glaucoma.
	Glauconite Glauconite is a Silicate minerals mineral of formula2(Si,Al)4O10(OH)2. It can also be referred to as an iron silicate. It crystallizes with monoclinic geometry. The name is derived from the Greek language glaucos meaning 'gleaming' or 'silvery', to describe the appearance of the blue-green color, presumably relating to the sheen and blue-green colour of the sea's surface.
	Glechoma Glechoma is a genus of 12 species of flowering plants in the Lamiaceae, and is native to much of Europe and Asia. The stems root at the nodes, often forming extensive mats ot coarsely toothed, rounded or broadly oval, soft hairy leaves. The ascending shoots bear pairs of small, tubular, 2-lipped flowers in the leaf axils in summer.
	Glee Club A Glee Club is a choir, historically of men but also of just women or mixed voices, which traditionally specializes in singing short songs. Glee clubs originated in England, but are no longer common in Britain; modern glee clubs are primarily found in North American colleges and university.
	Glen Canyon Dam Glen Canyon Dam is a dam on the Colorado River at Page, Arizona. The dam has been controversial since its inception, because it caused the flooding of Glen Canyon to create a man-made reservoir, Lake Powell. The dam is 1,560 feet long along its crest, 300 feet thick at the base and 25 feet thick at the top.
	Glenda Jackson Glenda May Jackson, Order of the British Empire, is a two-time Academy Awards-winning United Kingdom actor and politician, currently Labour Party Member of Parliament for the constituency of Hampstead and Highgate in the London Borough of Camden.
	Glengarry A Glengarry is a type of cap which Alasdair Ranaldson MacDonell of Glengarry invented and wears in the portrait to the right, a boat-shaped cap without a peak made of thick-milled woollen material with a toorie or bobble on top and ribbons hanging down behind, capable of being folded flat.
	Glenn Glenn, whose full legal name consists of the single word "Glenn," is an American performer and artist. As a clown he was known variously as "Bongo", "Bongo the Clown", or "The Great Bongo".
	Glenn Curtiss Glenn Hammond Curtiss was an aviation pioneer and founder of the Curtiss Aeroplane and Motor Company, now part of Curtiss-Wright Corporation. He was born in 1878 in Hammondsport, New York to Frank Richmond Curtiss and Lua Andrews. Curtiss married Lena Pearl Neff, daughter of Guy L.
	Glenn Miller Alton Glenn Miller , born in Clarinda, Iowa, was a United States jazz musician and bandleader in the Swing era. He is widely recognized as the genre's best-selling performer from 1939 to 1942 and fronted one of the most well-known "Big band." During World War II, while traveling to entertain U.S.
	Glenn T. Seaborg Glenn Theodore Seaborg was an United States chemist prominent in the discovery and isolation of ten transuranic elements including plutonium, americium, curium, berkelium, californium, einsteinium, fermium, mendelevium, nobelium and seaborgium, which was named in his honor.
	Glial cell Glial cells, commonly called neuroglia or simply glia, are non-neuronal cells that provide support and nutrition, maintain homeostasis, form myelin, and participate in signal transmission in the nervous system. In the human brain, glia are estimated to outnumber neurons by about 10 to 1.
	Glider Gliders are heavier-than-air aircraft primarily intended for unpowered flight. See also gliding for more details.
	Gliding Gliding is a recreational activity and competitive sport where pilots fly un-powered Fixed-wing aircraft known as gliders or sailplanes. Properly, the term gliding refers to descending flight of a heavier-than-air craft, whereas soaring is the correct term to use when the craft gains altitude or speed from rising air.
	Glitch A glitch is a short-lived fault in a system. The term is particularly common in the computing and electronics industries, and in circuit bending, as well as among players of video games, although it is applied to all types of systems including human organizations. The term derives from the German glitschen, meaning 'to slip.'
	Global Positioning System The Global Positioning System, usually called GPS, is the only fully-functional satellite navigation system. A constellation of more than two dozen GPS satellites broadcasts precise timing signals by radio, allowing any GPS receiver to accurately determine its location in any weather, day or night, anywhere on Earth.
	Global warming Global warming is the observed increase in the Historical temperature record of the Earth's atmosphere and oceans in recent decades. The Earth's average near-surface atmospheric temperature rose 0.6 ± 0.2 Celsius in the 20th century. The prevailing scientific opinion on climate change is that "most of the warming observed over the last 50 years is Attribution of recent climate change".
	Globalization Globalization or globalisation is an umbrella term for a complex series of economic, social, technological, cultural and political changes seen as increasing interdependence, integration and interaction between people and companies in disparate locations. As a term 'globalization' has been used as early as 1944 but economists began applying it around 1981.
	Globe This article is on a planet-representation device. For others, see globe. A globe is a three-dimensional scale Model of a spheroid celestial body such as a planet, star or moon, in particular Earth, or, alternatively, a spherical representation of the sky with the stars.
	Globe artichoke The Globe Artichoke is a Perennial plant, thistle-like plant, originating in southern Europe around the Mediterranean. It grows to 1.5-2 m tall, with arching, deeply lobed, silvery glaucous-green leaf 50-80 cm long. The flowers develop in a large head from an edible bud about 8-15 cm diameter with numerous triangular scales; the individual florets are purple.
	Globus pallidus The globus pallidus or pallidum is a sub-cortical structure in the brain. It is a major element of the basal ganglia system. There, it is a major element of the basal ganglia core made up of the striatum and its direct targets: pallidum and nigra. In primates, the globus pallidus is divided into two parts by the medial medullary lamina.
	Glockenspiel The Glockenspiel is a musical instrument in the percussion instrument family. It is similar to the xylophone, in that it has tuned bars laid out in a fashion resembling a piano keyboard. The xylophone's bars are wooden, while the glockenspiel's are metal, thus making it a metallophone.
	Gloomy Gloomy can refer to: *gloom, a melancholy, depressing or despondent atmosphere *The song Gloomy Sunday *The Gloomy Dean, nickname of William Ralph Inge *Gloomy Bear, a fictional character *Gloomy Galleon
	Gloria Steinem Gloria Steinem is an United States feminism icon, journalist and women's rights advocate. She is the founder and original publisher of Ms. magazine magazine.
	Gloria Swanson Gloria Swanson was an American actress, who was prolific during the era of the silent film, but had her career go into a decline upon the inception of "talkies". For modern audiences, she is best known for her comeback role in the 1950 film Sunset Blvd., where, mirroring her own life, she played a former silent movie star who was largely forgotten by audiences of the day.
	Gloriosa Gloriosa is a genus of five species in the plant family Colchicaceae, from tropical Asia and Africa. They are tuberous rooted deciduous perennials, adapted to a monsoon climate with a dormant dry season. Gloriosa climb or scramble over other plants with the aid of tendrils at the ends of their Leaf and can reach 3 meters in height.
	Glorious Glorious is the title of British comedian and transvestite Eddie Izzard's 1997 performance at the Hammersmith Apollo in London. The performance was released on video/DVD and on CD. The CD version is a recording of a different night. Both performances cover topics such as the Troy, Noah's Ark, the British Royal Family to the birth of baby Jesus.
	Glorious Revolution The Glorious Revolution was the overthrow of James II of England in 1688 by a union of Parliament of England and the the Netherlands stadtholder William III of Orange-Nassau . Many modern historians prefer the more neutral alternative Revolution of 1688, as "Glorious" reflects the biases of the Whig history.
	Glossy snake The glossy snake and its many subspecies are all similar in appearance to gopher snakes. They are small, with narrow, pointed heads, and a variety of skin patterns and colors. They are nonvenomous, nocturnal predators of small mammals and lizards, and can be found in sandy plains and deserts.
	Glottis The space between the vocal cords is called the glottis. As the vocal cords vibrate, the resulting vibration produces a "buzzing" quality to the speech, called voice or voicing. Sounds production involving only the glottis is called glottal. English has a voiceless glottal fricative spelled "h".
	Gloucester Gloucester is a city status in the United Kingdom and Non-metropolitan district in south-west England, close to the Wales border. It is the county town of Gloucestershire. In 2003 the city proper had a population of 110,207. However the built-up area extends beyond the city boundary.
	Gloucestershire Gloucestershire is a county in South West England. The county comprises part of the Cotswold Hills, part of the flat fertile valley of the River Severn, and the entire Forest of Dean. The county town is Gloucester, and other principal towns include Cheltenham, Stroud, England, Cirencester, and Tewkesbury.
	Glove A glove is a type of garment which covers the hand. Gloves have separate sheaths or openings for each finger and the thumb; if there is an opening but no covering sheath for each finger they are called "fingerless gloves". Fingerless gloves with one large opening rather than individual openings for each fingers are sometimes called Gauntlets.
	Glove compartment A glove compartment is a compartment built into the dashboard, located over the passenger's footwell in an automobile, often used for miscellaneous storage. The name derives from the original purpose of the compartment, to store gloves. In most vehicles, the glove compartment closes with a latch, with the option of being locked with a key.
	Glucagon Glucagon is a 29-amino acid polypeptide acting as an important hormone in carbohydrate metabolism. The polypeptide has a molecular weight of 3485 daltons and was discovered in 1923 by Kimball and Murlin. Its primary structure is: NH2-His-Ser-Gln-Gly-Thr-Phe-
	Glucose Glucose , a monosaccharide , is one of the most important carbohydrates in biology. The cell uses it as a source of energy and metabolic intermediate. Glucose is one of the main products of photosynthesis and starts cellular respiration in both prokaryotes and eukaryotes.
	Glue Historically, glue only refers to protein colloids prepared from animal tissues. The meaning has been extended to any type of glue-like substances that are used to attach one material to another. There are many adhesive substances that are considered or commonly referred to as glue such as: * Cyanoacrylate
	Glutamic acid Glutamic acid , also referred to as glutamate , is one of the 20 protein amino acids. It is not among the essential amino acids.
	Glutamine Glutamine is one of the 20 amino acids encoded by the standard genetic code. Its side chain is an amide; it is formed by replacing a side-chain hydroxyl of glutamic acid with an amine functional group.
	Glutathione peroxidase Glutathione peroxidase is a peroxidase found in the red blood cells of mammals that helps prevent Lipid_peroxidation of the cell membrane. The function of glutathione peroxidase, therefore, is to reduce lipid Organic_peroxide to their corresponding alcohols and to reduce free Hydrogen_peroxide to water.
	Gluteal muscles The gluteal muscles are the three muscles that make up the human buttocks. The gluteal muscles are formed of the gluteus maximus, gluteus minimus and gluteus medius. Collectively the area of the gluteal muscles is often referred to as the bottom, butt or rear-end.
	Gluten Gluten is an amorphous ergastic substance protein found combined with starch in the endosperm of some cereals, notably wheat, rye, and barley. It constitutes about 80% of the proteins contained in wheat, and is composed of the proteins gliadin and glutenin.
	Gluttony Gluttony is the over-indulgence and over-consumption of food, drink, or intoxicants to the point of waste. In the Christian religions, it is considered one of the seven deadly sins -- a misplaced desire of food or its withholding from the needy. Depending on the culture, it can be seen as either a vice or a sign of status.
	Glyceraldehyde Glyceraldehyde is a triose monosaccharide with chemical formula Carbon3Hydrogen6Oxygen3. It is the simplest of all common aldoses. It is a sweet colorless crystalline solid that is an intermediate compound in carbohydrate metabolism.
	Glycerol Glycerol, also well known as glycerin and glycerine, and less commonly as propane-1,2,3-triol, 1,2,3-propanetriol, 1,2,3-trihydroxypropane, glyceritol, and glycyl alcohol is a colorless, odorless, hygroscopic, and sweet-tasting Viscosity liquid.
	Glycine Glycine is a nonpolar amino acid. It is the simplest of the 20 standard amino acids: its side chain is a hydrogen atom. Because there is a second hydrogen atom at the a carbon, glycine is not optical isomerism. Since glycine has such a small side chain, it can fit into many places where no other amino acid can.
	Glycogen Glycogen is a polysaccharide that is the principal storage form of glucose in animal and human cell. Glycogen is found in the form of granules in the cytosol in many cell types. Hepatocytes have the highest concentration of it - up to 8% of the fresh weight in well fed state, or 100120 g in an adult.
	Glycolic acid Glycolic acid is the smallest alpha hydroxy acid. It appears in the form of a colourless, odorless and hygroscopic crystalline solid that is highly soluble in water and related solvents. Glycolic acid is associated with sugar-crops and is isolated from sugarcane, sugar beets, and unripe grapes.
	Glycolysis Glycolysis is a series of biochemistry chemical reaction by which a molecule of Glucose is oxidation to two molecules of Pyruvic acid. The word glycolysis is from Greek language glyk and lysis . It is the initial process of many metabolic pathway of carbohydrate catabolism, and serves two principal functions: generation of high-energy molecules , and production of a variety of six- or three-carbon intermediate metabolites
	Glycyrrhiza Glycyrrhiza is a genus of about 18 accepted species in the family Fabaceae, with a subcosmopolitan distribution in Asia, Australia, Europe, and the Americas. The genus is best known for liquorice, which is the product of Glycyrrhiza glabra, a species native to the Mediterranean region.
	Glyph In typography, a glyph is the shape given in a particular typeface to a specific grapheme or symbol. The term for the abstract entity represented by a glyph is character: a typographical character may be a grapheme , but also a numeral, a Punctuation, or a pictorial or decorative symbol .
	Gnaeus Julius Agricola Gnaeus Julius Agricola was a Roman Empire general responsible for much of the Roman conquest of Roman Britain. His biography, the Agricola , was the first published work of his son-in-law, the historian Tacitus, and is the source for most of what is known about him.
	Gnaphalium Gnaphalium, commonly called Cudweed, is a genus of plants belonging to the family Asteraceae. There are about 120 members of the genus mostly found in temperate regions although some are found on tropical mountains.
	Gnash Gnash is a GNU project to create a free software player for the Adobe Flash format. Currently the player can play Flash files, called SWF, up to version 7. Most other free software Flash players can only play up to SWF 4. The current version of Adobe Systems's proprietary software Flash player for GNU/Linux can also play up to version 7.
	GNAT GNAT is the GNU Ada programming language Compiler based on GNU Compiler Collection. Originally its name was an acronym that stood for GNU NYU Ada Translator, but nowadays it does not have any meaning. The front-end and runtime are written in Ada.
	Gnatcatcher The 15 species of small passerine birds in the gnatcatcher family occur in North America and South America. Most species of this mainly tropical and sub-tropical group are resident, but the Blue-gray Gnatcatcher of the United States and southern Canada bird migration south in winter.
	Gnathostomata Gnathostomata is the group of vertebrates with jaws. The group is traditionally a superclass, including the familiar classes of fish, birds, and so forth, and a sister group of the jawless vertebrates Agnatha. However, recent genetic studies are causing a reassessment of Gnathostomata as a grouping.
	Gneiss Gneiss is a common and widely distributed type of Rock formed by high-grade regional metamorphic rock processes from preexisting formations that were originally either igneous rock or Sedimentary rock rocks. Gneissic rocks are coarsely Foliation and largely Recrystallization but do not carry large quantities of mica, Chlorite group or other platy minerals.
	Gnetum gnemon Gnetum gnemon is a species of Gnetum native to southeast Asia and the western Pacific Ocean islands, from Assam south and east through Malaysia and Indonesia to the Philippines and Fiji. Common names include Melinjo or Belinjo, Bago, Peesae and Bt, Rau bp, Rau danh or G?m.
	Gnocchi Gnocchi is the Italian word for dumplings; in Italian, gnocchi is the plural of gnocco, which literally means "lump". They can be made of potato, semolina, flour, or ricotta cheese. One variety, gnocchi di pane, popular in the Friuli and Trentino-South Tyrol regions, is made from bread crumbs.
	Gnome A gnome is a legendary creature characterized by its very small stature and subterranean lifestyle. According to the alchemy Paracelsus, gnomes are the most important of the elemental spirits of the classical element of Earth ; they move as easily through the earth as humans walk upon it,have conical hats, and the sun's rays turn them into stone.
	GNOME name = GNOME | logo = | screenshot = | caption = GNOME 2.14 screenshot showing the Evince document viewer and the gedit text editor | developer = GNOME developers | latest_release_version = 2.16.0 | latest_release_date = 6 September 2006 | operating_system = Cross-platform | genre = Desktop environment
	Gnomon The gnomon is the part of a sundial which casts the shadow. Gnomon is an ancient Greek word meaning "indicator", "one who discerns," or "that which reveals." In the northern hemisphere, the shadow-casting edge is normally oriented so that it points north and is parallel to the rotation axis of the Earth.
	Gnosticism Gnosticism is a term created by modern scholars to describe a collection of religious groups, many of which thought of themselves as Christians, which were active in the first few centuries AD. Filoramo, Giovanni . A History of Gnosticism. Blackwell. pp. 142-7 There has been considerable scholarly controversy about exactly which groups to describe with this term.
	GNU GNU is a free software operating system consisting of a kernel , Library , system utility, compilers, and end-user Application software. Its name is a recursive acronym for "GNU's Not Unix", which was chosen because its design is Unix-like, but differs from Unix by being free software and by not containing any Unix code.