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Dictionary definition · G

noun

  1. a purine base found in DNA and RNA; pairs with cytosine
  2. a metric unit of weight equal to one thousandth of a kilogram
  3. one of the four nucleotides used in building DNA, also known as deoxyguanylate, or dGMP; all four nucleotides have a common phosphate group and a sugar (ribose)
  4. a unit of force equal to the force exerted by gravity; used to indicate the force to which a body is subjected when it is accelerated
  5. the cardinal number that is the product of 10 and 100
  6. the 7th letter of the Roman alphabet
  7. a unit of information equal to 1000 megabytes or 10^9 (1,000,000,000) bytes
  8. a unit of information equal to 1024 mebibytes or 2^30 (1,073,741,824) bytes
  9. (physics) the universal constant relating force to mass and distance in Newton's law of gravitation
  10. the 7th letter of the Roman alphabet

Source: Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0).