g

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. n. The seventh letter of the modern English alphabet.
2. n. Any of the speech sounds represented by the letter g.
3. n. The seventh in a series.
4. n. Something shaped like the letter G.
5. n. Music The fifth tone in the scale of C major or the seventh tone in the relative minor scale.
6. n. Music A key or scale in which G is the tonic.
7. n. Music A written or printed note representing this tone.
8. n. Music A string, key, or pipe tuned to the pitch of this tone.
9. abbr. acceleration of gravity
10. abbr. gram.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. In music: The G next above middle C has (at French pitch) about 388 vibrations per second. The proper tone of the fourth or lowest string of the violin, which is therefore called the G-string. The violin or treble clef designates the degree of the staff assigned to the G next above middle C.
2. In chem.: G α, β, γ, δ, ϵ, ζ, and η, symbols provisionally assigned by Crookes to chemical elements the presence of which in the oxids of the yttria group from gadolinite seemed to be indicated by special features in the phosphorescent spectrum.
3. In electricity, a symbol for conductance, the reciprocal of resistance. See conductance.
4. An abbreviation of genitive; of German and Germany; of gram; of gulf; in a log-book, of gloomy weather.

Wiktionary

1. n. The seventh letter of the basic modern Latin alphabet.
2. n. Symbol for the gram, an SI unit of mass.
3. n. Symbol for gravitational acceleration, approximately 9.81 m/s2 or 32 ft/sec2 at the earth's surface. Distinguished from G.
4. n. Alternative form of ɡ (voiced velar stop).
5. n. The seventh letter of the English alphabet, called gee and written in the Latin script.
6. n. The ordinal number seventh, derived from this letter of the English alphabet, called gee and written in the Latin script.
7. abbr. physics A unit of gravitational acceleration.

GNU Webster's 1913

1. G is the seventh letter of the English alphabet, and a vocal consonant. It has two sounds; one simple, as in gave, go, gull; the other compound (like that of j), as in gem, gin, dingy. See Guide to Pronunciation, §§ 231-6, 155, 176, 178, 179, 196, 211, 246.
2. (Mus.) G is the name of the fifth tone of the natural or model scale; -- called also sol by the Italians and French. It was also originally used as the treble clef, and has gradually changed into the character represented in the margin. See Clef. G♯ (G sharp) is a tone intermediate between G and A.

WordNet 3.0

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