GCR
Encyclopedia
GCR may refer to:
- Galactic cosmic rayGalactic cosmic rayGalactic cosmic rays are cosmic rays that have their origin inside our Galaxy. GCRs are high-energy charged particles, and are usually protons, electrons, and fully ionized nuclei of light elements...
, the high-energy particles that flow into our solar system from far away in the galaxy - Gas cooled reactorGas Cooled ReactorA gas-cooled reactor is a nuclear reactor that uses graphite as a neutron moderator and carbon dioxide as coolant...
, a nuclear reactor type - Gateshead Community Radio, a former recurring RSLRestricted Service LicenceA UK Restricted Service Licence , is typically granted to radio stations and television stations broadcasting within the UK to serve a local community or a special event...
that broadcast to GatesheadGatesheadGateshead is a town in Tyne and Wear, England and is the main settlement in the Metropolitan Borough of Gateshead. Historically a part of County Durham, it lies on the southern bank of the River Tyne opposite Newcastle upon Tyne and together they form the urban core of Tyneside...
in the 1990s. - General ChineseGeneral ChineseGeneral Chinese is a diaphonemic orthography invented by Yuen Ren Chao to represent the pronunciations of all major varieties of Chinese simultaneously. It is "the most complete genuine Chinese diasystem yet published"...
Romanization, a cross-dialectal spelling system devised by Chao Yuen Ren - Geological Conservation ReviewGeological Conservation ReviewThe Geological Conservation Review is produced by the UK's Joint Nature Conservation Committee and is designed to identify those sites of national and international importance needed to show all the key scientific elements of the geological and geomorphological features of Britain...
- Ghost-canceling referenceGhost-canceling referenceGhost-canceling reference, or GCR, is a special sub-signal on a television channel that receivers can use to attenuate the ghosting effect of a television signal split into multiple paths between transmitter and receiver....
, a special television signal that helps reduce the effects of multipath ("ghosting") - Global Competitiveness ReportGlobal Competitiveness ReportThe Global Competitiveness Report is a yearly report published by the World Economic Forum. The first report was released in 1979. The 2011–2012 report covers 142 major and emerging economies....
- Glucocorticoid receptorGlucocorticoid receptorThe glucocorticoid receptor also known as NR3C1 is the receptor to which cortisol and other glucocorticoids bind....
, a ligand-activated transcription factor that binds with high affinity to cortisol and other glucocorticoids - Graduate Common Room, a term for a postgraduate student organisation, sometimes used in collegiate universities in place of the more common MCR
- Grand Central Railway, an open-access United Kingdom railway company
- Great Central RailwayGreat Central RailwayThe Great Central Railway was a railway company in England which came into being when the Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway changed its name in 1897 in anticipation of the opening in 1899 of its London Extension . On 1 January 1923, it was grouped into the London and North Eastern...
, a railway company and former main line in the United Kingdom - Great Central Railway (preserved)Great Central Railway (preserved)The Great Central Railway is a heritage railway split into two adjacent sections, one in Leicestershire and the other Nottinghamshire.The Leicestershire section is currently Britain's only double track mainline heritage railway, with of working double track, period signalling, locomotives and...
, the preserved railway running on part of the old main line - Grey component replacementGrey component replacementWithin the CMY color space, any hue angle can be achieved by combining two of the three primaries. The intention of the third color is to move that hue towards grey , and is known as the greying agent. However, as that greying agent has an inherent hue of its own, it also shifts the hue as it...
, a topic in desktop publishing - Group Code RecordingGroup Code RecordingIn computer science, group code recording refers to several distinct but related encoding methods for magnetic media. The first, used in 6250 cpi magnetic tape, is an error-correcting code combined with a run length limited encoding scheme...
, a set of encoding methods for magnetic media (floppy disks, etc.) - Groupe Communiste Révolutionnaire, the French name for the Lebanese Revolutionary Communist GroupRevolutionary Communist Group (Lebanon)The Revolutionary Communist Group – RCG , or Groupe Communiste Révolutionnaire in French, is a Trotskyist organisation in Lebanon, associated with the reunified Fourth International....
- Guildford Campus Radio, the former name of student radio station GU2