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Gefilte FishnounMWEwell-seasoned balls of ground fish and eggs and crushed crumbs simmered in fish stockverified
Gegenscheinnouna faint spot of light in the night sky that appears directly opposite the position of the sunverified
Geishanouna Japanese woman trained to entertain men with conversation and singing and dancingverified
Geisha GirlnounMWEa Japanese woman trained to entertain men with conversation and singing and dancingverified
Gelatinnounan edible jelly (sweet or pungent) made with gelatin and used as a dessert or salad base or a coating for foodsverified
Gelatinenouna colorless water-soluble glutinous protein obtained from animal tissues such as bone and skinverified
Gelignitenouna type of dynamite in which the nitroglycerin is absorbed in a base of wood pulp and sodium or potassium nitrateverified
Gellynouna type of dynamite in which the nitroglycerin is absorbed in a base of wood pulp and sodium or potassium nitrateverified
Gemfibrozilnounmedication used to lower the levels of triglyceride in the blood, known under the trade name Lopidverified
Gemmanounsmall asexual reproductive structure in e.g. liverworts and mosses that detaches from the parent and develops into a new individualverified
Gemmationnounasexual reproduction in which a local growth on the surface or in the body of the parent becomes a separate individualverified
Gen XnounMWEthe generation following the baby boom (especially Americans and Canadians born in the 1960s and 1970s)verified
Gendernouna grammatical category in inflected languages governing the agreement between nouns and pronouns and adjectivesverified
Gender AgreementnounMWEagreement in grammatical gender between words in the same constructionverified
Gender IdentitynounMWEyour identity as it is experienced with regard to your individuality as male or femaleverified
Gender RolenounMWEthe overt expression of attitudes that indicate to others the degree of your maleness or femalenessverified
Gene ChipnounMWEa microchip that holds DNA probes that form half of the DNA double helix and can recognize DNA from samples being testedverified
Gene ExpressionnounMWEconversion of the information encoded in a gene first into messenger RNA and then to a proteinverified
Gene LinkagenounMWE(genetics) traits that tend to be inherited together as a consequence of an association between their genesverified
Gene-Splicingnounthe technology of preparing recombinant DNA in vitro by cutting up DNA molecules and splicing together fragments from more than one organismverified
General AnaesthesianounMWEa state of total unconsciousness resulting from anesthetic drugs (as for a major surgical operation)verified
General AnaestheticnounMWEan anesthetic that anesthetizes the entire body and causes loss of consciousnessverified
General AnesthesianounMWEa state of total unconsciousness resulting from anesthetic drugs (as for a major surgical operation)verified
General AnestheticnounMWEan anesthetic that anesthetizes the entire body and causes loss of consciousnessverified
general controlnounMWEControls, other than application controls, that relate to the environment within which application systems are developed, maintained, and operated, and that are therefore applicable to all the applications at an institution. The objectives of general controls are to ensure the proper development and implementation of systems, and the integrity of program and data files and of computer operations.Control
General DamagesnounMWE(law) compensation for losses that can readily be proven to have occurred and for which the injured party has the right to be compensatedverified
General DeliverynounMWEthe part of a post office that handles mail for persons who call for itverified
General HeadquartersnounMWEmilitary headquarters from which a military commander controls and organizes the forcesverified
General LiennounMWEa lien on all the property owned by a debtor and not just a specific propertyverified
General MedicinenounMWEthe branch of medicine that deals with the diagnosis and (nonsurgical) treatment of diseases of the internal organs (especially in adults)verified
General OfficernounMWEofficers in the Army or Air Force or Marines above the rank of colonelverified
General RelativitynounMWEa generalization of special relativity to include gravity (based on the principle of equivalence)verified
General Relativity TheorynounMWEa generalization of special relativity to include gravity (based on the principle of equivalence)verified
General StaffnounMWEmilitary officers assigned to assist a senior officer in planning military policyverified
General Support SystemnounMWEAn interconnected set of information resources under the same direct management control which shares common functionality. A system normally includes hardware, software, information, data, applications, communications, and people. A system can be, for example, a local area network (LAN) including smart terminals that supports a branch office, an agency-wide backbone, a communications network, a departmental data processing center including its operating system and utilities, a tactical radio network, or a shared information processing service organization (IPSO).System
General Theory of RelativitynounMWEa generalization of special relativity to include gravity (based on the principle of equivalence)verified
General VerdictnounMWEan ordinary verdict declaring which party prevails without any special findings of factverified
General-Purpose BombnounMWEa large bomb (500 to 2,000 pounds that is 50% explosive) whose explosion creates a blast and whose metal casing creates some fragmentation effectverified
Generalisationnounthe process of formulating general concepts by abstracting common properties of instancesverified
Generalistnouna modern scholar who is in a position to acquire more than superficial knowledge about many different interestsverified
Generalizationnounthe process of formulating general concepts by abstracting common properties of instancesverified
Generalized Anxiety DisordernounMWEan anxiety disorder characterized by chronic free-floating anxiety and such symptoms as tension or sweating or trembling or lightheadedness or irritability etc that has lasted for more than six monthsverified
Generalized EpilepsynounMWEepilepsy in which the attacks involve loss of consciousness and tonic spasms of the musculature followed by generalized jerkingverified
Generalized SeizurenounMWEa seizure during which the patient becomes unconscious and has convulsions over the entire bodyverified
Generally Accepted Accounting PrinciplesnounMWEa collection of rules and procedures and conventions that define accepted accounting practiceverified
Generationnoungroup of genetically related organisms constituting a single step in the line of descentverified
Generation XnounMWEthe generation following the baby boom, especially of Americans and Canadians born in the 1960s and 1970sverified
Generative Adversarial Network (gan)nounMWEGenerative Adversarial Networks, or GANs for short, are an approach to generative modeling using deep learning methods, such as convolutional neural networks. Generative modeling is an unsupervised learning task in machine learning that involves automatically discovering and learning the regularities or patterns in input data in such a way that the model can be used to generate or output new examples that plausibly could have been drawn from the original dataset.System
Generative GrammarnounMWE(linguistics) a type of grammar that describes syntax in terms of a set of logical rules that can generate all and only the infinite number of grammatical sentences in a language and assigns them all the correct structural descriptionverified
Generatornounengine that converts mechanical energy into electrical energy by electromagnetic inductionverified
Generic DrugnounMWEwhen the patent protection for a brand-name drug expires generic versions of the drug can be offered for sale if the FDA agreesverified
Generic WinenounMWEa wine that is a blend of several varieties of grapes with no one grape predominatingverified