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G
G is the seventh letter in the basic modern Latin alphabet.-History:The letter 'G' was introduced in the Old Latin period as a variant of ⟨c⟩ to distinguish voiced, from voiceless, . The recorded originator of ⟨g⟩ is freedman Spurius Carvilius Ruga, the first Roman to open a fee-paying school, who taught around 230 BC

G
Ĝ or ĝ is a consonant in Esperanto orthography, representing a voiced postalveolar affricate , and is equivalent to a voiced postalveolar affricate or a voiced retroflex affricate .

G
Ğ, or ğ, is a letter, known as g-breve in English, used in the Turkish, Azerbaijani, Berber, Crimean Tatar and Tatar languages. In Unicode they are and .-Turkish use:

G
Ġ is a letter of the Latin alphabet, formed from G with the addition of a dot above the letter. The dot is sometimes placed within the capital, rather than above.-Arabic:

G
The g-stroke character is a letter of the Latin Skolt Sami alphabet, denoting the partially voiced palatal spirant . It appears contrastively with respect to , and typically appears phonemically geminate, e.g., "I bring"

G (2002 film)
G is a film released in 2002 by Christopher Scott Cherot. It made its worldwide premiere on May 10, 2002 at the Tribeca Film Festival in USA. It made its theatrical premiere on October 28, 2005 in the US, more than 3 years from its initial premiere. Since then, it has been released on DVD in Spain, Iceland, and Hungary. The film is loosely based on the novel The Great Gatsby by F

G (disambiguation)
G is the seventh letter of the alphabet. It can also refer to:- Astronomy :* A stellar classification for yellowish stars* A provisional designation in astronomy for any comet, asteroid, or minor planet discovered between April 1 and 15

G (musical note)
Sol, So, or G is the fifth note of the solfège starting on C. As such it is the dominant, a perfect fifth above C.When calculated in equal temperament with a reference of A above middle C as 440 Hz, the frequency of Middle G note is approximately 391.995 Hz

G-Force (Gary Moore album)
G-Force is a 1980 album by the namesake UK-American band led by Gary Moore. Moore was on an American tour with Thin Lizzy and left the band mid-tour. He went to Los Angeles in an attempt to make a solo rock presence

G-Man
G-Man may mean:* G-Man , short for "Government Man", slang for agents of the Federal Bureau of Investigation and similar organizations

G-spot (disambiguation)
The G-Spot is an area of the human vagina.G-Spot can also refer to:*G-Spot , a Canadian television series*GSpot, video codec software

G-string
A G-string is a type of thong underwear or swimsuit, a narrow piece of cloth, leather, or plastic, that covers or holds the genitals, passes between the buttocks, and is attached to a band around the hips, worn as swimwear or underwear by women and men

G2G (TV series)
G2G: Got to Go, is an animated television series co-produced by Moody Street Kids and March Entertainment . The series focuses on the life of a preteen girl, Maddison Marples-Macintosh, who assumes the role of an online advice columnist on her school's website

G7 (disambiguation)
G7, G.VII, G07 or G-7 or Group of Seven may be:* G7, a group of seven industrialized nations of the world, formed in 1976 when Canada joined the Group of Six

GA
Ga or GA may refer to:In geography and demography:* Gabon, a nation in west central Africa * The Gambia, country in Africa, FIPS 10-4 country code

GAA (disambiguation)
GAA may refer to:* Gaelic Athletic Association, governing body of Gaelic games such as hurling and Gaelic football* Gay Activists Alliance, New York City gay rights organization 1969-81

Gaas
Gaas is a commune in the Landes department in Aquitaine in south-western France.

GAB
GAB as a three-letter acronym may refer to:* Georgia Association of Broadcasters, Georgia, United States* Great American Ball Park, sports stadium in Cincinnati, Ohio, United States

Gab (song)
A gab or gap is an Occitan boasting song of the High Middle Ages , when the troubadours were popular. It is often considered related to the tenso and partimen, two types of debate poem

Gabacho
Gabacho is a word used in the Spanish language to describe foreigners of different origins:* In Spain, it is used as a pejorative for French people. It comes from Occitan gavach

Gabardine
Gabardine is a tough, tightly woven fabric used to make suits, overcoats, trousers, uniforms, windbreakers, and other garments. The fibre used to make the fabric is traditionally worsted wool, but may also be cotton, texturized polyester, or a blend. Gabardine is woven as a warp-faced steep or regular twill, with a prominent diagonal rib on the face and smooth surface on the back

Gabardine (disambiguation)
Gabardine is a tough, tightly woven fabric used to make suits, overcoats, trousers and other garments.Gabardine may also refer to:* Gabardine , an American indie rock group** Gabardine, the band's eponymous debut album

Gabb Drilon
Gab is an American-Filipino actor.-Early life:Born as Gene Gabriel Drilon, he is a nephew of former Senator Franklin Drilon.-Showbusiness career:He is part of Star Magic

Gabbia
Gabbia is a 2003 independent short-film directed by Italian filmmaker Francesco Roder, who also wrote the script. It stars Mexican actress Claudia Soberón.- Plot :

Gabbro
Gabbro refers to a large group of dark, coarse-grained, intrusive mafic igneous rocks chemically equivalent to basalt. The rocks are plutonic, formed when molten magma is trapped beneath the Earth's surface and cools into a crystalline mass.

Gabby
Gabby may refer to:*George "Gabby" Hayes , American actor*Gabby Pahinui , Hawaiian musician*Mighty Gabby , Caribbean folk singer*Gabriel Agbonlahor , British footballer

Gable
A gable is the generally triangular portion of a wall between the edges of a sloping roof. The shape of the gable and how it is detailed depends on the structural system being used and aesthetic concerns. Thus the type of roof enclosing the volume dictates the shape of the gable

Gable (disambiguation)
A gable is the portion of a wall between the lines of a sloping roof.Gable may also refer to:People:* Gable , a surname* Clark Gable a film actor* Gable Garenamotse , Botswanan long jumperPlaces:

Gabon
Gabon , officially the Gabonese Republic is a state in west central Africa sharing borders with Equatorial Guinea to the northwest, Cameroon to the north, and with the Republic of the Congo curving around the east and south. The Gulf of Guinea, an arm of the Atlantic Ocean is to the west

Gabonese
Gabonese may refer to:* Something of, from, or related to the country of Gabon* A person from Gabon, or of Gabonese descent. For information about the Gabonese people, see Demographics of Gabon and Culture of Gabon

Gaborone
' is the capital and largest city of Botswana with a population of 191,776 based on a 2006 survey, about 10% of the total population of Botswana.

Gabriel
In Abrahamic religions, Gabriel is an Archangel who typically serves as a messenger to humans from God.He first appears in the Book of Daniel, delivering explanations of Daniel's visions. In the Gospel of Luke Gabriel foretells the births of both John the Baptist and of Jesus

Gabriel (comics)
Gabriel, in comics, may refer to:* Gabriel the Devil Hunter, a Marvel Comics character* Gabriel the Air-Walker, another Marvel character

Gabriel (film)
Gabriel is a 2007 Australian supernatural action-horror film set in purgatory. It follows the archangel Gabriel's fight to rid purgatory of the evil Fallen and save the souls of its inhabitants. Gabriel is the first feature directed by Shane Abbess, who also co-wrote the screenplay with Matt Hylton Todd

Gabriel (name)
Gabriel is a given name or surname derived from the Hebrew name "Gabriel" meaning "able-bodied one of God". It was popularized by the association with the Biblical archangel Gabriel.

Gad
Gad may refer to:In religion:*Gad , the founder of the tribe of Gad and seventh son of Jacob*Gad , King David's seer or prophet*Gad , a pan-Semitic deity worshipped during the Babylonian captivity

Gadabout (automobile)
The Gadabout was an unusual American automobile manufactured in Newark, New Jersey from 1913 until 1915. A four-cylinder cyclecar, it had a body woven from so-called "waterproof reeds"; Wise describes it as "looking like a mobile wastepaper basket".

Gadfly
Gadfly can refer to:* "Gadfly", a fly that annoys horses and other livestock, usually a horse-fly or a botfly*Social gadfly, a person who upsets the status quo*Gadfly , a relational database in the Python programming language

Gadget
A gadget is a small technological object that has a particular function, but is often thought of as a novelty. Gadgets are invariably considered to be more unusually or cleverly designed than normal technological objects at the time of their invention

GADGET
GADGET is a freely available code for cosmological N-body/SPH simulations written by Volker Springel at the Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics

Gadget (computer science)
In computer science and computational complexity theory, gadgets are often used to construct reductions from one problem to another. Each element of the first problem is converted to a gadget built from elements of the second problem

Gadidae
Gadidae is a family of marine fish, included in the order Gadiformes. It includes the cod, haddock, whiting, and pollock.Most species of gadid are found in temperate waters of the northern hemisphere, although there are some exceptions. They are generally medium sized fish, and are distinguished by the presence of three dorsal fins on the back and two anal fins on the underside

Gadiformes
Gadiformes is an order of ray-finned fish, also called the Anacanthini, that includes the cod and its allies. Many major food fish are in this order. They are found in marine waters throughout the world, and there are also a small number of freshwater species.Common characteristics include the positioning of the pelvic fins , below or in front of the pectoral fins

Gadolinium
Gadolinium is a chemical element with the symbol Gd and atomic number 64. It is a silvery-white, malleable and ductile rare-earth metal. It is found in nature only in combined form. Gadolinium was first detected spectroscopically in 1880 by de Marignac who separated its oxide and is credited with its discovery

Gadzooks
Gadzooks, Inc. was a mall-based clothing retailer aimed at teenagers based in Carrollton, Texas. It was founded in 1983 as a t-shirt business owned by Texas businessmen, Jerry Szczepanski and Larry Titus. After achieving success, Gadzooks expanded its product line to sell a broader assortment of clothing aimed at teenagers

Gaelic
Gaelic is an adjective that means "pertaining to the Gaels", including language and culture. As a noun, it may refer to the group of languages spoken by the Gaels, or to any one of the languages individually.-Gaelic languages:

Gaff
-Pole-shaped devices:* Fishing gaff, a pole used in fishing* Gaff or hakapik, used as a seal-hunting weapon* Gaff rig; A fore-and-aft sailing arrangement where the sail is held up by a spar called a gaff-Ankle-worn devices:

Gaffer
- People :* Gaffer , a British colloquial term for "boss" or "old man" a man who has gone beyond the age of adolescent.* Gaffer , the head of the electrical department* Gaffer , a person who blows glass

Gaffer (filmmaking)
A gaffer in the motion picture industry and on a television crew is an electrician that can be head of the electrical department, responsible for the execution of the lighting plan for a production. Gaffer, outside of the motion picture industry, is a traditional British English word for an older man or boss

Gag
A gag is usually a device designed to prevent speech, often as a restraint device to stop the subject from calling for help. This is usually done by blocking the mouth, partially or completely, or attempting to prevent the tongue, lips, or jaw from moving in the normal patterns of speech. They are often less effective in reality than in crime fiction

GAG (boot loader)
GAG is a GNU GPL boot loader for x86 computers. It doesn't need its own partition — it installs directly to the boot sector of Hard disk or floppy disk which allows it to survive to repartitioning or formatting. It is distributed as a bootable disk image, which makes it fully operating system-independent

Gag order
A gag order is an order, sometimes a legal order by a court or government, other times a private order by an employer or other institution, restricting information or comment from being made public.Gag orders are often used against participants involved in a lawsuit or criminal trial

Gaga
- Entertainment :* Lady Gaga , American recording artist* Gaga , a dancing technique* Rara, a type of Caribbean music called Gaga in the Dominican Republic* GNZ-004 Gaga, a mobile weapon in Mobile Suit Gundam 00- Sports :

Gage
Gage may refer to:In nature:* Gage , plums of subspecies Prunus domestica ssp. italica** Greengage, P. d. ssp. italica var

Gage (surname)
-Politics and government:*Frances Dana Barker Gage, suffragist and women's rights leader*George Gage, 7th Viscount Gage *Henry Gage , American governor of California*Jack R

Gager
Gager is a municipality in the Vorpommern-Rügen district, in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany. Besides Gager, the municipality also includes the villages Groß Zicker and Groß Zicker Ausbau.-External links:*

Gaggle
A gaggle is a term of venery for a flock of geese that isn't in flight; in flight, the group can be called a skein.In terms of geese, a gaggle is equal to at least five geese.

Gai
Gai may refer to:*Gai, Austria, a town in the district of Leoben in Styria*Gai Assulin, a football player currently playing for Manchester City*Oleksiy Gai, a football player currently playing for Shaktar Donetsk

GAI
GAI , short for State Automobile Inspectorate , are the Russian traffic police. They are responsible for the regulation of traffic, investigating traffic accidents, and manning the stop lights. GAI officers are called "GAI inspectors" in Russia

GAI (Arabidopsis thaliana gene)
In the vocabulary of gene identification, GAI, also known as GA INSENSITIVE, is an gene.-Further reading:----

Gaia
- Mythology :* Gaia , the primal Greek goddess of the Earth* Gaia, the Earth in New Age Gaian spirituality- Science :* Gaea , a crater on Amalthea, a moon of Jupiter* Gaia hypothesis, concerning the stability of Earth's natural systems

Gaia (Havana)
Gaia is an arts centre in Havana, Cuba, set up on January 1, 2000 as a not-for-profit collaboration between Cuban and international artists. The centre offers theatre, music and dance performances, workshops, programs for children and the physically disadvantaged, and exhibitions of works by young artists

Gaia (Olivia Newton-John album)
Gaia: One Woman's Journey is an album released by Olivia Newton-John in 1994. For the first time in her career; the album was entirely written by Newton-John herself

Gailey
Gailey may refer to:*Chan Gailey , American football player and coach*Gailey, Staffordshire, a village in Staffordshire, England**Gailey Reservoir is nearby

Gain
In electronics, gain is a measure of the ability of a circuit to increase the power or amplitude of a signal from the input to the output. It is usually defined as the mean ratio of the signal output of a system to the signal input of the same system. It may also be defined on a logarithmic scale, in terms of the decimal logarithm of the same ratio

Gain
In electronics, gain is a measure of the ability of a circuit to increase the power or amplitude of a signal from the input to the output. It is usually defined as the mean ratio of the signal output of a system to the signal input of the same system. It may also be defined on a logarithmic scale, in terms of the decimal logarithm of the same ratio

Gain (information retrieval)
The gain, also called improvement over random can be specified for a classifier and is an important measure to describe the performance of it.- Definition :

Gain (lasers)
Gain in laser physics is a process, where the medium transfers part of its energy to the emitted electromagnetic radiation, resulting in an increase in laser power

Gaina (disambiguation)
Gaina may refer to:* Gaina, the Indian clan of Jats* Găina River, a Romanian river* Valery Gaina, a Romanian guitar player* Gaina , a Romanian family name