(Main list of acronyms)

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  • g – (s) Gram
  • G – (s) Gauss – (i) General Audiences (movie rating) - Gewehr (German, rifle)

G0–9

  • G1 – (s) Assistant Chief-of-Staff, Personnel
  • G2 – (s) Assistant Chief-of-Staff, Intelligence
  • G3 – many, including Heckler & Koch G3; see entry – (s) Assistant Chief-of-Staff, Operations and Plans
  • G4
  • (i) Generation Four PowerPC microprocessor
  • (s) Assistant Chief-of-Staff, Logistics
  • G5
  • (i) Generation Five PowerPC microprocessor
  • Group of Five conferences (US college sports, especially football)
  • (s) Assistant Chief-of-Staff, Public Affairs
  • G6
  • (s) Assistant Chief-of-Staff, Information Technology
  • (i) Group of 6 (France, Germany, United States, Japan, United Kingdom, Italy) (1975)
  • G7 – (s) Assistant Chief-of-Staff, Training – (i) Group of 7 (G6 + Canada) (1976)
  • G8 – (s) Assistant Chief-of-Staff, Finance – (i) Group of 8 (G7 + Russia) (1998)
  • G9 – (s) Assistant Chief-of-Staff, Civil-Military Co-operation (CIMIC)
  • G10 – (i) Group of 10 (G7 + Belgium, Netherlands, Sweden, Switzerland; numbering 11 in fact)
  • G15 – (i) Group of 15 (subset of G77, formed 1989: Algeria, Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Egypt, India, Indonesia, Jamaica, Kenya, Nigeria, Malaysia, Mexico, Peru, Senegal, Sri Lanka, Venezuela and Zimbabwe; currently numbers 17)
  • G20 – (i) Group of 20 (G8 + Argentina, Australia, Brazil, China, India, Indonesia, Mexico, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, South Korea, Turkey + current European Union presiding country) (1999)
  • G24 – (i) Group of 24 (subset of G77, formed 1971: Algeria, Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, Côte d'Ivoire, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Egypt, Ethiopia, Gabon, Ghana, Guatemala, India, Iran, Lebanon, Mexico, Nigeria, Pakistan, Peru, Philippines, South Africa, Syria, Sri Lanka, Trinidad and Tobago and Venezuela)
  • G77 – (i) Group of 77 (issued from the United Nations Conference on Commerce and Development, 1964; currently numbers 133)

GA

  • Ga – (s) Gallium – Gigaannum
  • GA – (s) Gabon (ISO 3166 digram) – The Gambia (FIPS 10-4 country code) – (i) Gamblers Anonymous – Georgia (postal symbol) – Gigaampere – Goa (Indian state code) - (i) General Aviation
  • GAAR – (a) General Anti-Avoidance Rule (tax evasion)
  • GAB – (s) Gabon (ISO 3166 trigram)
  • GABA – (i) Gamma-AminoButyric Acid
  • GAD – (a) Generalized Anxiety Disorder
  • GALCIT – (a) Guggenheim Aeronautical Laboratory, California Institute of Technology
  • GAO – (i) U.S. Government Accountability Office
  • GAW – (i) Global Atmospheric Watch

GB

  • GB – (s) Gabon (FIPS 10-4 country code) – United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (ISO 3166 digram) [glamour boy 7-9/10]
  • GBA – Game Boy Advance
  • GBBC – (i) Great (Global) Backyard Bird Count
  • GBE – (i) Knight/Dame Grand Cross of the Order of the British Empire
  • GBH
  • (i) Great Bash Heel (Japanese professional wrestling stable)
  • Gregory Bonner Hale (British design and advertising agency)
  • Grievous bodily harm
  • GBP – (s) United Kingdom pound sterling (ISO 4217 currency code)
  • GBR – (s) United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (ISO 3166 trigram)
  • GBU – (i) Glide-Bomb Unit – Global Business Unit(s)

GC

  • GC
  • (s) East Germany (NATO country code; obsolete 1990)
  • (i) General classification (cycling)
  • General counsel
  • George Cross (British civil decoration)
  • (s) Gigacoulomb [Grindr cruise]
  • GCA – (i) Graduate in Claims Administration
  • GCCS – (i/a) Global Command and Control System ("geeks")
  • GCD – see entry
  • GCF – (i) Greatest Common Factor
  • GCI – (i) Ground-controlled interception
  • GCN – (i) Gamma-ray burst Coordination Network
  • GCS – (i) Global Coordinate System
  • GCSE – (i) General Certificate of Secondary Education (UK)
  • G-CSF – (i) Granulocyte Colony-Stimulating Factor

GD

  • gd – (s) Scottish Gaelic language (ISO 639-1 code)
  • Gd – (s) Gadolinium
  • GD – (s) Grenada (ISO 3166 digram)
  • GDC
  • (i) Game Developers Conference
  • General Dental Council
  • GDL – (i) Game Definition Language
  • GDP
  • (i) General Dental Practitioner (UK)
  • Gross Domestic Product
  • GDPR
  • (i) General Data Protection Regulation (EU law)
  • Gross domestic product of region
  • GDR – (i) German Democratic Republic (cf. DDR)
  • GDR – (i) General Distribution Release (Microsoft Term for a software service release; between Hotfix and Service Pack)
  • GDW – (i) Game Designers Workshop

GE

  • Ge – (s) Germanium
  • GE
  • (i) General Electric
  • Genetic Engineering (cf. GM)
  • (s) Georgia (ISO 3166 digram)
  • GEBCO – (a) General Bathymetric Chart of the Oceans
  • GEC – (i) Great Engineering Challenge
  • GED – (i) General Educational Development (high school equivalency credential in the U.S. and Canada)
  • GEEP – (i) Geophysical Equipment Exploration Platform
  • GEICO – (p/a) Government Employees Insurance Company (GUY-coh)
  • GEL
  • (s) Georgian lari (ISO 4217 currency code)
  • Gilbert and Ellice Islands (ISO 3166 trigram; obsolete 1977)
  • GEMA
  • (a) Gas and Electricity Markets Authority
  • Georgia Emergency Management Agency
  • (p) Gesellschaft für musikalische Aufführungs- und mechanische Vervielfältigungsrechte (German performance rights organisation)
  • (a) Global Engine Manufacturing Alliance
  • GEN – (s) Full General (four stars) in the U.S. Army
  • GEO
  • (a) Geostationary Earth Orbit
  • (s) Georgia (ISO 3166 trigram)
  • GEOS – (i) Graphical Environment Operating System
  • GEQ – (s) Equatorial Guinea (IOC trigram, but not FIFA or ISO 3166)
  • GER – (s) Germany (IOC and FIFA trigram, but not ISO 3166)
  • Gestapo – (p) GEheime STAatsPOlizei (German "secret state police")
  • GeV – (s) Gigaelectron-volt
  • GEV – (i) Ground Effect Vehicle

GF

  • GF
  • (s) French Guiana (ISO 3166 digram)
  • Gigafarad
  • GFCF
  • (i) Gluten-free, casein-free diet
  • Gross fixed capital formation
  • GFCI – (i) Ground Fault Circuit Interruptor (aka GFI)
  • GFDL – (i) GNU Free Documentation License
  • GFE
  • (i) Girlfriend experience (used in escort services)
  • Good Faith Estimate
  • Government Furnished Equipment
  • GFI – (i) Ground Fault Interruptor (aka GFCI)
  • GFL – (i) German Football League (Germany's Bundesliga for American football; the English-language name is used in German without translation)
  • GFN – (i) Global Footprint Network
  • GFW
  • (i) Global Force Wrestling – either the original incarnation or Impact Wrestling, which was briefly known under the name
  • (p) Great Firewall of China (cf. Internet censorship in China)
  • GFY – (i) "good for you" or "go fuck yourself", depending on the context (Internet chat)

GG

  • GG – (s) Georgia (FIPS 10-4 country code)
  • GGG – (i) Gennady Gennadyevich Golovkin, Kazakhstani boxer
  • GGK – Good God Karma
  • GGWP – Good Game Well Played
  • GGP
  • (i) General Game Playing
  • GGP – GeoGraphic Processor, Geographic Information System (GIS) originally the Greater London Council (GLC) in-house system and now GGP Ltd

GH

  • GH – (s) Ghana (ISO 3166 digram; FIPS 10-4 country code) – Gigahenry
  • GHA – (s) Ghana (ISO 3166 trigram)
  • GHB – (i) gamma-Hydroxybutyric acid
  • GHC – (s) Ghanaian cedi (ISO 4217 currency code)

GI

  • Gi – (s) Gibi
  • GI
  • (i) Galvanised Iron
  • Gastro-Intestinal
  • General Issue
  • (s) Gibraltar (ISO 3166 digram; FIPS 10-4 territory code)
  • (i) Government Issue
  • Global Illumination
  • GIB – (s) Gibraltar (ISO 3166 trigram)
  • GIF – (a) Graphics Interchange Format
  • GIG – (a) Global Information Grid
  • GIGN – (i) Groupe d'intervention de la Gendarmerie nationale (French, "National Gendarmerie Intervention Group'), French police tactical unit
  • GIGO – (a) Garbage In Garbage Out (computing)
  • GIMP – (a) GNU Image Manipulation Program
  • GIN
  • (s) Guinea (ISO 3166 trigram)
  • (a) Guidelines International Network
  • GIP – (s) Gibraltar pound (ISO 4217 currency code)
  • GIS
  • (i) Geographic Information System
  • Google Image Search
  • GISS
  • (a/i) General Impression of Size and Shape
  • Goddard Institute for Space Studies

GJ

  • GJ – (s) Gigajoule – Grenada (FIPS 10-4 country code) – Gujarat (Indian state code)
  • GJD – (i) Geocentric Julian Day

GK

  • GK – (s) Gigakelvin – Guernsey (FIPS 10-4 territory code) - (s) Goalkeeper

GL

  • gl – (s) Galician language (ISO 639-1 code)
  • GL
  • (s) Gigalitre
  • (i) Graphics Language
  • (s) Greenland (ISO 3166 digram; FIPS 10-4 territory code)
  • (i) Grenade Launcher
  • gla – (s) Scottish Gaelic language (ISO 639-2 code)
  • GLAAD – (a) Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation
  • GLAC – (a) General Ledger Accounting Code
  • GLAST – (a) Gamma-ray Large Area Space Telescope
  • GLBA – (i) Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act
  • GLC – (i) Gas-liquid chromatography
  • gle – (s) Irish language (ISO 639-2 code)
  • glg – (s) Galician language (ISO 639-2 code)
  • GLINT
  • (a) Gallium-arsenide Laser Illuminator for Night TV
  • Gated Laser Illuminator for Narrow Television
  • (p) Gated Laser Intensifier (tape)
  • Gospel Literature International
  • Graphical Linux Installation Tool
  • GLONASS – (a) Global'naya navigatsionnaya sputnikovaya sistema (Russian Глоба́льная Навигацио́нная Спу́тниковая Систе́ма, "Global Navigation Satellite System")
  • GLP – (s) Guadeloupe (ISO 3166 trigram)
  • GLSDB - (i) Ground Launched Small Diameter Bomb
  • GLUT – (a/i) OpenGL Utility Toolkit
  • glv – (s) Manx language (ISO 639-2 code)
  • GLV – (i) Gained Life Value

GM

  • Gm – (s) Gigametre
  • GM
  • (s) The Gambia (ISO 3166 digram)
  • (i) GameMaster (role-playing)
  • General Motors
  • Genetically Modified
  • (s) Germany (FIPS 10-4 country code)
  • (i) Guru Meditation (computing)
  • GMAC
  • (i) General Motors Acceptance Corporation, the original name of the company now known as Ally Financial
  • Graduate Management Admission Council
  • G-MAC
  • (i) Great Midwest Athletic Conference
  • GMB
  • (s) The Gambia (ISO 3166 trigram)
  • (i) General, Municipal, Boilermakers (and Allied Trade Union)
  • GmbH – (i) Gesellschaft mit beschränkter Haftung (German, "Company with limited liability")
  • GMC
  • (i) U.K. General Medical Council
  • Gospel Music Channel
  • GMD – (s) Gambian dalasi (ISO 4217 currency code)
  • GMFSC – (i) Ground Mobile Forces Satellite Communications
  • GMG - (i) Granatmaschinengewehr (German, Grenade Machine Gun)
  • GMI
  • (i) Generic Model Interface
  • Geometry Model Instance
  • GML
  • Generalized Markup Language
  • Geography Markup Language
  • Game Maker Language
  • Graph Modelling Language
  • Graphical Motion Language
  • GUI Markup Language
  • Hostomel Airport (IATA code)
  • GMO – (i) Genetically Modified Organism
  • GMPCS – (i) Global Mobile Personal Communications by Satellite
  • GMT
  • (i) Giant Magellan Telescope
  • Greenwich Mean Time

GN

  • gn – (s) Guaraní language (ISO 639-1 code)
  • GN
  • (s) Giganewton
  • Guinea (ISO 3166 digram)
  • GNAS – (p) Grand National Archery Society
  • GNB – (s) Guinea-Bissau (ISO 3166 trigram)
  • GNC
  • (i) "G&C Records" NetLabel
  • General Nutrition Centers (US sports nutrition retailer branded as GNC)
  • GNF – (s) Guinean franc (ISO 4217 currency code)
  • GNOME – (a) GNU Network Object Model Environment
  • GNP – (i) Gross National Product
  • GNQ – (s) Equatorial Guinea (ISO 3166 trigram)
  • GnRH – (p) Gonadotropin-Releasing Hormone
  • GNU – (a) GNU's Not Unix

GO

  • GO – (s) Glorioso Islands (FIPS 10-4 territory code)
  • GOA
  • (s) General of the Army (United States only)
  • (i) Gun Owners of America
  • GOAT – (s) Greatest of all time (LL Cool J album title)
  • GOC – (i) General Officer Commanding
  • GOES – (a) Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite
  • GOP – (i) Grand Old Party
  • GOP – (a) God of Porn
  • gorp – (a) granola, oats, raisins, peanuts (another name for trail mix), probably a backronym
  • GOSC – (a/i) General Officer Steering Committee
  • GOSH – (a) Great Ormond Street Hospital
  • GOSP – (a) Gas/Oil Separation Plant
  • GOTS – (a) Government off-the-shelf
  • GOWI – (a) Get On With It
  • GOYADIN – (a) Get Off Your Arse, Do It Now (anti-procrastination mantra)

GP

  • GP – (i) General Practitioner – General Purpose – Grand Prix – (s) Guadeloupe (ISO 3166 digram; FIPS 10-4 territory code)
  • GPA – (i) Grade Point Average
  • GPC – (i) Global Path Cache
  • GPG – (i) GNU Privacy Guard
  • GPIB – (i) General-Purpose Instrumentation/Interface Bus
  • GPL – (i) GNU General Public License
  • GPMP – (i) General Purpose Macro Processor
  • GPU - (i) General Purpose Machine Gun
  • GPO – (i) General Post Office
  • GPPC – (i) Genetics and Public Policy Center
  • GPR – (i) Ground-Penetrating Radar
  • GPS – (i) General Problem Solver – Global Positioning System
  • GPT – (i) GEC-Plessey Telecommunications – General Purpose Technology – Get Paid To website
  • GPU
  • (i) Gosudarstvennoye Politicheskoye Upravlenie (Russian Государственное Политическое Управление, "State Political Administration") (1922–1934)
  • (i) Graphics Processor Unit

GQ

  • GQ
  • (s) Equatorial Guinea (ISO 3166 digram)
  • (i) Gentlemen's Quarterly (the original name of the magazine now known simply as GQ)
  • (s) Guam (FIPS 10-4 territory code)

GR

  • GR – (s) Greece (FIPS 10-4 country code; ISO 3166 digram) – Hail (METAR Code)
  • GRAIL – (i) Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory
  • GRAS – (i) Generally recognized as safe (FDA list)
  • GRB – (i) Gamma-ray burst
  • GRC – (s) Greece (ISO 3166 trigram)
  • GRD – (s) Grenada (ISO 3166 trigram)
  • GRE
  • (i) Graduate Record Examination
  • (s) Greece (IOC and FIFA trigram, but not ISO 3166)
  • grep – (a) [search] Globally for Regular Expression, Print [lines]
  • GRid – Global Release Identifier, a music industry identifier from the RIAA and IFPI
  • GRID – (a) Gay-Related Immune Deficiency (original name of AIDS)
  • GriT – (a) Girl raised in Texas (Woman presenting firm southern traits/beliefs)
  • GRL – (s) Greenland (ISO 3166 trigram)
  • GRN
  • (s) Grenada (IOC and FIFA trigram, but not ISO 3166)
  • (i) Goods received note
  • grn – (s) Guaraní language (ISO 639-2 code)
  • GRP – (i) Graphite-reinforced plastic, see Carbon-fiber-reinforced polymer
  • GRU – (i) Glavnoje Razvedyvatel'noje Upravlenije/Главное Разведывательное Управление (Russian, "Main Intelligence Directorate" [of the former Soviet and now Russian armed forces])

GS

  • Gs – (s) Gigasecond
  • GS
  • (i) General Schedule (US civil service pay scale)
  • General Support
  • (s) Gigasiemens
  • South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands (ISO 3166 digram)
  • GSR – (i) Gun Shot Residue
  • GS-R – (i) General Support-Reinforcing
  • GSA – (i) U.S. General Services Administration
  • GSD – (i) Graphical Situation Display
  • GSG
  • (i) German Sport Guns
  • Global Scenario Group (former environmental research organization)
  • Grenzschutzgruppe (German, "Border Guard Group" — Germany's GSG 9 counterterrorist unit was originally a special branch of the border police)
  • GSGB – (God send glamour boy 9-10/10)
  • GSK – (p) GlaxoSmithKline [good sexual karma]
  • GSM
  • (i) General Service Medal
  • Grams per Square Metre (paper thickness; properly g/m<sup>2</sup>)
  • Ground Station Module
  • Groupe spécial mobile (French, "Special Mobile Group"; official expansion is now Global System for Mobile Communications)
  • GSN – (a/i) Game Show Network
  • GSO – (i) General Services Officer (U.S. Department of State)
  • GSOH – (i) Good Sense Of Humour
  • GSP – Georges St-Pierre (Canadian MMA fighter)
  • GSS – (i) Generic Security Services
  • GST – (i) Goods and Services Tax (Australia, Canada, and other countries)
  • GSW – (i) Gunshot wound

GT

  • GT – (s) Gigatesla – (i) Gran Turismo – Grand Touring – (s) Guatemala (FIPS 10-4 country code; ISO 3166 digram)
  • GTA – (i) Grand Theft Auto
  • GTB – (i) Get to bed, namely to get a new job after a long time of searching, usually following a phone call
  • GTC – (i) Gran Telescopio Canarias (Spanish, Canaries Great Telescope)
  • GTD – (i) Getting Things Done
  • GTFO – "Get the f**k out!"
  • GTG – (i) Good To Go (Internet chat)
  • GTK – (i) Good To Know (Internet chat)
  • GTGN – (i) Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names
  • GTM – (s) Guatemala (ISO 3166 trigram)
  • GTQ – (s) Guatemalan quetzal (ISO 4217 currency code)
  • GTV – (s) Gross Tumor Volume quetzal (ISO 4217 currency code)

GU

  • gu – (s) Gujarati language (ISO 639-1 code)
  • GU – (s) Guam (postal symbol; ISO 3166 digram)
  • GUA – (s) Guatemala (IOC and FIFA trigram, but not ISO 3166)
  • GUF – (s) French Guiana (ISO 3166 trigram)
  • GUI – (a) Graphical user interface ("goo-ey")
  • GUILT – (a) Gangliated Utrophin Immuno Latency Toxin
  • guj – (s) Gujarati language (ISO 639-2 code)
  • GULCR – (i) Grupo de Usuarios de Linux de Costa Rica
  • Gulag – (p) Glavnoye Upravleniye ispravitelno-trudovykh LAGerei i kolonii (Russian Главное Управление Исправительно—Трудовых Лагерей и колоний, "Main Directorate of Corrective Labour Camps")
  • GUM
  • (a) Glavnyi Universalnyi Magazin (Russian Главный Универсальный Магазин, "Main Department Store"; known in Soviet times as Gosudarstvennyi Universalnyi Magazin/Государственный Универсальный Магазин, "State Department Store")
  • (s) Guam (ISO 3166 trigram)
  • Guide to the expression of Uncertainty in Measurement
  • GURPS - (a) Generic Universal RolePlaying System
  • GUT – (a) Grand Unification Theory

GV

  • gv – (s) Manx language (ISO 639-1 code)
  • GV – (s) Gigavolt – Guinea (FIPS 10-4 country code)

GW

  • GW – (i) Games Workshop – Germ Warfare – (s) Gigawatt – (i) Guided Weapon – (s) Guinea-Bissau (ISO 3166 digram)
  • GWARS – (p) Ground Warfare System (simulation)
  • GWAS – (p) Grand Western Archery Society
  • GWOT – (i) Global War on Terrorism
  • GWS – (i) Gulf War Syndrome – Greater Western Sydney

GX

  • GXA – (p) Global XML Web Services Architecture
  • GXE – (s) Gene–environment interaction
  • GXF – (p) General Exchange Format
  • GXH – (i) IATA code of Gannan Xiahe Airport
  • GXL – (p) Graph eXchange Language
  • GXM – (p) Matrox Graphics eXpansion Module
  • GXP – (p) Grid Exit Point - (i) Global Xchange Programme - (i) Indication of highest performance level on some Pontiac vehicles
  • GxP – (i) Good X Practice (X can mean: clinical, manufacturing, pharmaceutical, etc.)
  • GXY – (i) IATA code of Greeley-Weld County Airport

GY

  • GY – (s) Guyana (FIPS 10-4 country code; ISO 3166 digram)
  • GYD – (s) Guyana dollar (ISO 4217 currency code)
  • GYY – (s) Gary/Chicago International Airport (IATA Airport Code)

GZ

  • GZ – (s) Gaza Strip (FIPS 10-4 territory code) – (i) Ground Zero
  • GZK – (i) Greisen-Zatsepin-Kuzmin cut-off (cosmic ray energies)