A gem, or gemstone, is a cut rock or mineral.

Gem or GEM may also refer to:

Arts, entertainment and media

Fictional characters

  • Gem Reeves, in Neighbours
  • Gem, in Star Treks "The Empath"
  • Gem, in Tron: Legacy
  • Gem, in Power Rangers RPM
  • Gems, aliens in Steven Universe
  • Gems, in Land of the Lustrous

Music

  • GEM (band), a Japanese idol girl group
  • Gem (American band), with Doug Gillard
  • Gem (Dutch band), a rock band
  • G.E.M. (Gloria Tang Sze-wing, born 1991), a Chinese singer and songwriter
  • G.E.M. (EP), 2008
  • Gem (album), by Beni Arashiro, 2007
  • "The Gem", a song by Priestess from the 2009 album Prior to the Fire

Other uses in arts, entertainment and media

  • "Gem", a 2006 episode of TV series The Inside
  • The Gem, an early 20th-century British story paper
  • CBC Gem, the OTT streaming service of Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
  • Gem Theatre (disambiguation)
  • Gem TV (disambiguation), the name of several broadcasters

Businesses and organisations

  • GEM Motoring Assist, a British road safety and breakdown recovery organisation
  • G. E. M. Membership Department Stores, a chain of discount stores in the U.S. and Canada
  • Global Electric Motorcars, an American manufacturer of low-speed vehicles
  • GEM, musical instruments by Generalmusic
  • Global Energy Monitor, an American organisation which catalogs energy-related projects
  • Global Earthquake Model, a public–private partnership to develop risk assessment software
  • Gordon–Evernham Motorsports, a NASCAR Busch Series race team
  • Grenoble École de Management, a French graduate business school

People

  • Gem Archer (born 1966), English musician
  • Harry Gem (1819–1881), English lawyer, soldier, writer and sportsman

Places

United States

  • Gem, Kansas
  • Gem County, Idaho
  • Gem, Indiana
  • Gem, Ohio
  • Gem, Texas
  • Gem, West Virginia
  • Gem Glacier, Glacier National Park, Montana
  • Gem Valley, Idaho
  • Gem Lake (Flathead County, Montana)
  • Lake Gem (Florida)

Elsewhere

  • Gem, Alberta, Canada
  • Gem Lake (Vancouver Island), British Columbia, Canada
  • Gem Constituency, Kenya

Science and technology

  • GEM (gene), GTP-binding protein
  • Gem, a format of the RubyGems package manager for Ruby
  • Gem, codename for the PlayStation Move controller
  • Gem, the game engine of Best Way
  • GEM of Egypt, a power shovel used for strip mining
  • Geminal, in chemistry
  • Gemini (constellation), in astronomy
  • Gas electron multiplier, a type of gaseous ionization detector
  • German equatorial mount, for astronomical telescopes and cameras
  • GEM (desktop environment) (Graphics Environment Manager), a software operating environment from Digital Research
  • GEM, a compiler backend created for DEC MICA and later used in OpenVMS and Tru64.
  • Graphics Environment for Multimedia, graphics software
  • Global Environmental Multiscale Model, a meteorological forecasting system
  • Globally Executable MHP, a DVB specification for TV
  • Graphics Execution Manager, video software
  • Graphite-Epoxy Motor, a series of solid rocket boosters
  • Gravitoelectromagnetism, formal analogies between the equations for electromagnetism and relativistic gravitation
  • Gyrokinetic ElectroMagnetic, a plasma turbulence simulation
  • SECS/GEM, semiconductor's equipment interface protocol for equipment-to-host data communications

Transportation and military

  • Gem (automobile), by the Gem Motor Car Company 1917–1919
  • Rolls-Royce Gem, a helicopter engine
  • Gem 4/4, a Rhaetian Railway locomotive class
  • Ground effect machine (GEM), a hovercraft
  • USS Gem (SP-41), a U.S. Navy patrol vessel 1917-1919
  • GM GEM platform, Global Emerging Markets automotive platform used by General Motors

Other uses

  • Gem (moth), of the family Geometridae
  • Gem, the most common paper clip design
  • Gender Empowerment Measure, an index designed to measure of gender equality
  • Generalized Expertise Measure, a psychometric measure of expertise
  • The Germanic languages (ISO 639-1 code )
  • Global Entrepreneurship Monitor, a research project into entrepreneurial activity
  • Grand Egyptian Museum, or the Giza Museum, a museum of artifacts of ancient Egypt
  • Growth Enterprise Market, a board of the Stock Exchange of Hong Kong

See also

  • Gems (disambiguation)
  • Gemstone (disambiguation)
  • Jem (disambiguation)