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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A gravitational unit of work, the work required to lift one gram one meter vertically against the earth's attractive force. It is one thousandth of a kilogram-meter, or about 98,000 ergs.

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  • FP: Those good intercepts we are investigating are approximately 4x times the resource average on a gram-meter basis, our hope would be to identify zones that could materially change the startup economics.

    PR.com Press Releases Caesars Report 2010

  • FP: Those good intercepts we are investigating are approximately 4x times the resource average on a gram-meter basis, our hope would be to identify zones that could materially change the startup economics.

    PR.com Press Releases Caesars Report 2010

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