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- noun Plural form of
g-force .
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Examples
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A lot of this experience comprises actual, measurable g-forces—that aching neck is no illusion—but at least some of it is due to Ford's sound-scaping.
A Boss on the Road With a Peon's Interior Dan Neil 2011
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The 50-ft. arm can swing the three man gondola to create g-forces astronauts will experience during controlled flight and during reentry.
Hey JSC: ARC Has A Centrifuge You Can Use (update) - NASA Watch 2009
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This car courses up alpine roads with a surety, solidity and grip, a steady appetite for g-forces that makes it a huge pleasure to go fast.
Alfa Romeo Readies a Stirring Stateside Return Dan Neil 2011
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Diving hummingbirds experience g-forces in the range that could cause human stunt pilots to blackout.
Boing Boing 2009
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It made his stomach churn, already unsettled from the shifting g-forces of the shuttlecraft.
Archive 2010-04-01 Blue Tyson 2010
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They can turn and maneuver more sharply, since g-forces are of little concern.
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The car exhibits reasonable body and pitch control — the adaptive air suspension with continuous damping helps — but the Equus nonetheless feels large in corners and increasingly unhappy as the g-forces increase, tending toward a pretty insistent understeer, despite its 19-inch sport tires.
Hyundai's Ur-Luxury Horse of a Different Dolor Dan Neil 2011
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They can turn and maneuver more sharply, since g-forces are of little concern.
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Hyundai The car exhibits reasonable body and pitch control, but nonetheless feels large in corners and increasingly unhappy as the g-forces increase, tending toward a pretty insistent understeer, despite its 19-inch sport tires.
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I'm tightly belted into the recumbent driver's seat, but the escalating lateral g-forces are sloshing my organs around like squid in a cooler.
Lambo's Latest Rambo Has a Heart Dan Neil 2011
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