List of acronyms: G

(Main list of acronyms)

g – Gram
G – Gauss – General Audiences - ''Gewehr''

G0–9

G1 – Assistant Chief-of-Staff, Personnel
G2 – Assistant Chief-of-Staff, Intelligence
G3 – many, including Heckler & Koch G3; see entry – Assistant Chief-of-Staff, Operations and Plans
G4
* Generation Four PowerPC microprocessor
* Assistant Chief-of-Staff, Logistics
G5
* Generation Five PowerPC microprocessor
* Group of Five conferences
* Assistant Chief-of-Staff, Public Affairs
G6
* Assistant Chief-of-Staff, Information Technology
* Group of 6
G7 – Assistant Chief-of-Staff, Training – Group of 7
G8 – Assistant Chief-of-Staff, Finance – Group of 8
G9 – Assistant Chief-of-Staff, Civil-Military Co-operation
G10 – Group of 10
G15 – Group of 15
G20 – Group of 20
G24 – Group of 24
G77 – Group of 77

GA

Ga – Gallium – Gigaannum
GA – Gabon – The Gambia – Gamblers Anonymous – Georgia – Gigaampere – Goa - General Aviation
GAAR – General Anti-Avoidance Rule
GAB – Gabon
GABA – Gamma-AminoButyric Acid
GAD – Generalized Anxiety Disorder
GALCIT –
GAO – U.S. Government Accountability Office
GAW – Global Atmospheric Watch

GB

GB – Gabon – United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
GBA – Game Boy Advance
GBBC – Great (Global) Backyard Bird Count
GBE – Knight/Dame Grand Cross of the Order of the British Empire
GBH
* Great Bash Heel
* Gregory Bonner Hale
* Grievous bodily harm
GBP – United Kingdom pound sterling
GBR – United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
GBU – Glide-Bomb Unit – Global Business Unit

GC

GC
* East Germany
* General classification
* General counsel
* George Cross
* Gigacoulomb
GCA – Graduate in Claims Administration
GCCS – Global Command and Control System
GCD – see entry
GCF – Greatest Common Factor
GCI – Ground-controlled interception
GCN – Gamma-ray burst Coordination Network
GCS – Global Coordinate System
GCSE – General Certificate of Secondary Education
G-CSF – Granulocyte Colony-Stimulating Factor

GD

GE

Ge – Germanium
GE
* General Electric
* Genetic Engineering
* Georgia
GEBCO – General Bathymetric Chart of the Oceans
GEC – Great Engineering Challenge
GED – General Educational Development
GEEP – Geophysical Equipment Exploration Platform
GEICO – Government Employees Insurance Company
GEL
* Georgian lari
* Gilbert and Ellice Islands
GEMA
* Gas and Electricity Markets Authority
* Georgia Emergency Management Agency
* Gesellschaft für musikalische Aufführungs- und mechanische Vervielfältigungsrechte
* Global Engine Manufacturing Alliance
GEN – Full General in the U.S. Army
GEO
* Geostationary Earth Orbit
* Georgia
GEOS – Graphical Environment Operating System
GEQ – Equatorial Guinea
GER – Germany
Gestapo – GEheime STAatsPOlizei
GeV – Gigaelectron-volt
GEV – Ground Effect Vehicle

GF

GF
* French Guiana
* Gigafarad
GFCF
* Gluten-free, casein-free diet
* Gross fixed capital formation
GFCI – Ground Fault Circuit Interruptor
GFDL – GNU Free Documentation License
GFE
* Girlfriend experience
* Good Faith Estimate
* Government Furnished Equipment
GFI – Ground Fault Interruptor
GFL – German Football League
GFN – Global Footprint Network
GFW
* Global Force Wrestling – either the original incarnation or Impact Wrestling, which was briefly known under the name
* Great Firewall of China
GFY – "good for you" or "go fuck yourself", depending on the context

GG

GG – Georgia
GGG – Gennady Gennadyevich Golovkin, Kazakhstani boxer
GGK – Good God Karma
GGWP – Good Game Well Played
GGP
* General Game Playing
GGP – GeoGraphic Processor, Geographic Information System originally the Greater London Council in-house system and now GGP Ltd

GH

GH – Ghana – Gigahenry
GHA – Ghana
GHB – gamma-Hydroxybutyric acid
GHC – Ghanaian cedi

GI

Gi – Gibi
GI
* Galvanised Iron
* Gastro-Intestinal
* General Issue
* Gibraltar
* Government Issue
* Global Illumination
GIB – Gibraltar
GIF – Graphics Interchange Format
GIG – Global Information Grid
GIGN – Groupe d'intervention de la Gendarmerie nationale, French police tactical unit
GIGO – Garbage In Garbage Out
GIMP – GNU Image Manipulation Program
GIN
* Guinea
* Guidelines International Network
GIP – Gibraltar pound
GIS
* Geographic Information System
* Google Image Search
GISS
* General Impression of Size and Shape
* Goddard Institute for Space Studies

GJ

GJ – Gigajoule – Grenada – Gujarat
GJD – Geocentric Julian Day

GK

GK – Gigakelvin – Guernsey - Goalkeeper

GL

gl – Galician language
GL
* Gigalitre
* Graphics Language
* Greenland
* Grenade Launcher
gla – Scottish Gaelic language
GLAAD – Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation
GLAC – General Ledger Accounting Code
GLAST – Gamma-ray Large Area Space Telescope
GLBA – Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act
GLC – Gas-liquid chromatography
gle – Irish language
glg – Galician language
GLINT
* Gallium-arsenide Laser Illuminator for Night TV
* Gated Laser Illuminator for Narrow Television
* Gated Laser Intensifier
* Gospel Literature International
* Graphical Linux Installation Tool
GLONASS – Global'naya navigatsionnaya sputnikovaya sistema
GLP – Guadeloupe
GLSDB - Ground Launched Small Diameter Bomb
GLUT – OpenGL Utility Toolkit
glv – Manx language
GLV – Gained Life Value

GM

Gm – Gigametre
GM
* The Gambia
* GameMaster
* General Motors
* Genetically Modified
* Germany
* Guru Meditation
GMAC
* General Motors Acceptance Corporation, the original name of the company now known as Ally Financial
* Graduate Management Admission Council
G-MAC
* Great Midwest Athletic Conference
GMB
* The Gambia
* General, Municipal, Boilermakers
GmbH – Gesellschaft mit beschränkter Haftung
GMC
* U.K. General Medical Council
* Gospel Music Channel
GMD – Gambian dalasi
GMFSC – Ground Mobile Forces Satellite Communications
GMG - Granatmaschinengewehr
GMI
* 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
GMO – Genetically Modified Organism
GMPCS – Global Mobile Personal Communications by Satellite
GMT
* Giant Magellan Telescope
* Greenwich Mean Time

GN

gn – Guaraní language
GN
* Giganewton
* Guinea
GNAS – Grand National Archery Society
GNB – Guinea-Bissau
GNC
* "G&C Records" NetLabel
* General Nutrition Centers
GNF – Guinean franc
GNOME – GNU Network Object Model Environment
GNP – Gross National Product
GNQ – Equatorial Guinea
GnRH – Gonadotropin-Releasing Hormone
GNU – GNU's Not Unix

GO

GO – Glorioso Islands
GOA
* General of the Army
* Gun Owners of America
GOAT – Greatest of all time
GOC – General Officer Commanding
GOES – Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite
GOP – Grand Old Party
GOP – God of Porn
gorp – granola, oats, raisins, peanuts, probably a backronym
GOSC – General Officer Steering Committee
GOSH – Great Ormond Street Hospital
GOSP – Gas/Oil Separation Plant
GOTS – Government off-the-shelf
GOWI – Get On With It
GOYADIN – Get Off Your Arse, Do It Now

GP

GP – General Practitioner – General Purpose – Grand Prix – Guadeloupe
GPA – Grade Point Average
GPC – Global Path Cache
GPG – GNU Privacy Guard
GPIB – General-Purpose Instrumentation/Interface Bus
GPL – GNU General Public License
GPMP – General Purpose Macro Processor
GPU - General Purpose Machine Gun
GPO – General Post Office
GPPC – Genetics and Public Policy Center
GPR – Ground-Penetrating Radar
GPS – General Problem Solver – Global Positioning System
GPT – GEC-Plessey Telecommunications – General Purpose Technology – Get Paid To website
GPU
* Gosudarstvennoye Politicheskoye Upravlenie
* Graphics Processor Unit

GQ

GR

GR – Greece – Hail
GRAIL – Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory
GRAS – Generally recognized as safe
GRB – Gamma-ray burst
GRC – Greece
GRD – Grenada
GRE
* Graduate Record Examination
* Greece
grep – Globally for Regular Expression, Print
GRid – Global Release Identifier, a music industry identifier from the RIAA and IFPI
GRID – Gay-Related Immune Deficiency
GriT – Girl raised in Texas
GRL – Greenland
GRN
* Grenada
* Goods received note
grn – Guaraní language
GRP – Graphite-reinforced plastic, see Carbon-fiber-reinforced polymer
GRU – Glavnoje Razvedyvatel'noje Upravlenije/Главное Разведывательное Управление

GS

Gs – Gigasecond
GS
* General Schedule
* General Support
* Gigasiemens
* South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands
GSR – Gun Shot Residue
GS-R – General Support-Reinforcing
GSA – U.S. General Services Administration
GSD – Graphical Situation Display
GSG
* German Sport Guns
* Global Scenario Group
* Grenzschutzgruppe
GSGB –
GSK – GlaxoSmithKline
GSM
* General Service Medal
* Grams per Square Metre
* Ground Station Module
* Groupe spécial mobile
GSN – Game Show Network
GSO – General Services Officer
GSOH – Good Sense Of Humour
GSP – Georges St-Pierre
GSS – Generic Security Services
GST – Goods and Services Tax
GSW – Gunshot wound

GT

GT – Gigatesla – Gran Turismo – Grand Touring – Guatemala
GTA – Grand Theft Auto
GTB – Get to bed, namely to get a new job after a long time of searching, usually following a phone call
GTC – Gran Telescopio Canarias
GTD – Getting Things Done
GTFO – "Get the f**k out!"
GTG – Good To Go
GTK – Good To Know
GTGN – Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names
GTM – Guatemala
GTQ – Guatemalan quetzal
GTV – Gross Tumor Volume quetzal

GU

gu – Gujarati language
GU – Guam
GUA – Guatemala
GUF – French Guiana
GUI – Graphical user interface
GUILT – Gangliated Utrophin Immuno Latency Toxin
guj – Gujarati language
GULCR – Grupo de Usuarios de Linux de Costa Rica
Gulag – Glavnoye Upravleniye ispravitelno-trudovykh LAGerei i kolonii
GUM
* Glavnyi Universalnyi Magazin
* Guam
* Guide to the expression of Uncertainty in Measurement
GURPS - Generic Universal RolePlaying System
GUT – Grand Unification Theory

GV

gv – Manx language
GV – Gigavolt – Guinea

GW

GW – Games Workshop – Germ Warfare – Gigawatt – Guided Weapon – Guinea-Bissau
GWARS – Ground Warfare System
GWAS – Grand Western Archery Society
GWOT – Global War on Terrorism
GWS – Gulf War Syndrome – Greater Western Sydney

GX

GXA – Global XML Web Services Architecture
GXE – Gene–environment interaction
GXF – General Exchange Format
GXH – IATA code of Gannan Xiahe Airport
GXL – Graph eXchange Language
GXM – Matrox Graphics eXpansion Module
GXP – Grid Exit Point - Global Xchange Programme - Indication of highest performance level on some Pontiac vehicles
GxP – Good X Practice
GXY – IATA code of Greeley-Weld County Airport

GY

GY – Guyana
GYD – Guyana dollar
GYY – Gary/Chicago International Airport

GZ

GZ – Gaza Strip – Ground Zero
GZK – Greisen-Zatsepin-Kuzmin cut-off