Appendix Acronyms G

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Acronyms - G

G General audiences [Movie rating]

G Gravity

GA Gamblers Anonymous

GA General Assembly

GA General Average

GA General of the Army

GA Georgia

GAAP Generally Accepted Accounting Principles

GAB Group Audio Bridging [Telephony]

Gaia Earth's self-sustaining BIOSphere

GAN Global Area Network

GAO General Accounting Office [US Government]

GAR Grand Army of the Republic

GARR Gruppo Arminizzazione Rete por la Ricerca (Italian Research Network Harmonization Group)

GAS Get-Away Special [Space]

GATT General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade

GAW Guaranteed Annual Wage

GAW Guarenteed Annual Wage

GB Gangbusters

GB GigaByte

GB Great Britain

GBIP General Purpose Interface Bus

GBT Green Bank Telescope [Space]

GC Garbage Collection (LISP)

GC Gas Chromatograph (or Chromatography)

GCA Ground Controlled Approach

GCC Gnu C Compiler

GCD Ground Controlled Descent

GCL Graphics Command Language

GCM General Court Martial

GCR Group-Coded Recording (magnetic tape, 6250 bpi)

GCT Greenwich Civil Time

GCVS General Catalog of Variable Stars [Space]

GDB Gnu DeBugger

GDP Gross Domestic Product

GDS Great Dark Spot [Space]

GE General Electric

GEM Giotto Extended Mission [Space]

GEM Graphics Environment Manager

GEO Geosynchronous Earth Orbit [Space]

GHQ General HeadQuarters

GHRS Goddard High Resolution Spectrograph (on HST) [Space]

GHz Giga HertZ (unit of frequency, 1,000,000,000 cycles per second)

GI Galvanised Iron

GI Gastro Intestinal (as in upper GI)

GI General Issue

GI Government Issue

GID Group ID [UNIX]

GIF Graphics Interchange Format

GIGO Garbage In Garbage Out

GIN Graphics INput

GISS Goddard Institute for Space Studies

GKS Graphical Kernel Standard

GKS Graphics Kernel System

GM Game Master

GM General Manager

GM General Motors [Corporate name, Automobile]

GM Guided Missile

GMBH Gesellschaft Mit Beschraenkter Haftung

GMC Giant Molecular Cloud [Space]

GMD Gesellschaft f\:ur Mathematik und Datenverarbeitung (German Institute for Mathematics and Data Processing)

GMRT Giant Meter-wave Radio Telescope [Space]

GMT Greenwich Mean Time (also called UT)

GNP Gross National Product

GNU GNU's Not Unix

GOES Geostationary Orbiting Environmental Satellite [Space]

GOES Geostationary Orbiting Environmental Satellites [Space]

GOSIP Government Open Systems Interconnection Profile

GOSIP Government OSI Profile

GP General Practitioner

GP General Purpose (RR engines and origin of Jeep) [Railroading, Automobile]

GPC General Purpose Computer [Space]

GPI Graphics Programming Interface

GPIB General Purpose Interface Bus

GPIB General-Purpose Interface Bus

GPL GNU General Public Licence

GPO General Post Office

GPO Government Printing Office

GPS Global Positioning System

GPS Global Positioning System [Space]

GQ General Quarters

GRB Gamma Ray Burst(er)

GREP Global Regular Expression Print, g/re/p, (UNIX command)

GREP Global Regular Expression Print [UNIX]

GRO Gamma Ray Observatory [Space]

GRS Gamma Ray Spectrometer (on Mars Observer) [Space]

GRS Great Red Spot [Space]

GS General Schedule

GS Glide Slope

GSA General Services Administration

GSA General Services Adminstration [US Government]

GSA Girl Scouts of America

GSBCA General Services administration Board of Contract Appeals

GSC Guide Star Catalog (for HST) [Space]

GSFC Goddard Space Flight Center (Greenbelt, MD) [NASA, Space]

GSI Gesellschaft f\:ur Schwerionenforschung (German Federal Research Institute for Heavy Ion Research)

GSM Global System Mobile

GSM Groupe Speciale Mobile (Committee Designing preceding)

GSTS Ground-based Surveillance and Tracking System

GT Gross Ton

GTE General Telephone and Electric [Corporate name]

GTO Geostationary Transfer Orbit [Space]

GTSI Government Technology Services, inc.

GUI Graphical User Interface

GW Gamma World

GWEN Ground Wave Emergency Network

GWM Generic Window Manager