Definitions beginning with G

Global fund - permalink - collapse

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Global, or world, mutual funds invest in US securities as well as those of other countries. In that way, they differ from international funds, which invest only in non-US markets.
Although global funds may keep as much as 75% of their assets invested in the US, fund managers are able to take advantage of opportunities they see in various overseas markets.

Yahoo Finance - Cite This Source - This Definition
Browse Related Terms: American depositary receipt (ADR), Closed-end fund, Diversified Mutual Fund, Emerging markets fund, Global depositary receipt (GDR), international fund, investment company, Offshore fund, Sector fund, Sector Mutual Fund, World fund

Global Grid Forum - permalink - collapse

All > Technology > Parallel Computing > Grid Computing

The standards body for defining standard specifications for global grids. www.gridforum.org
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Browse Related Terms: CERN (Conseil Europeen pour la Recherche Nucleaire), GGF (Global Grid Forum), Globus Alliance, Globus Toolkit, homeostasis, IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers), OASIS (Organization for the Advancement of Structure Information Standards)

global group - permalink - collapse

All > Technology > Storage

A collection of user accounts in a Windows NT domain that are members of the domain in which the global group is defined.
NetApp - Cite This Source - This Definition
Browse Related Terms: Backup Domain Controller (BDC), BDC, DC, domain controller (DC), local group, NT domain, PDC, Workgroup

global information infrastructure - permalink - collapse

All > Technology > Telecommunications

See GII.
ATIS - Cite This Source - This Definition
Browse Related Terms: information superhighway, superhighway

globally unique identifier - permalink - collapse

All > Technology > Operating System > Microsoft Windows > Microsoft Windows Server

A 16-byte value generated from the unique identifier on a device, the current date and time, and a sequence number. It is used to identify a particular device, component, user, or session.
Microsoft - Cite This Source - This Definition
Browse Related Terms: Globally Unique Identifier (GUID), GUID, Uniform Resource Identifier, URI

Globally Unique Identifier (GUID) - permalink - collapse

All > Technology > Operating System > Microsoft Windows > Microsoft Windows Server > Microsoft Active Directory

A 16-byte value generated from the unique identifier on a device, the current date and time, and a sequence number. A GUID is used to identify a particular device, component, user, or session.
GuardianEdge Technologies - Cite This Source - This Definition
Browse Related Terms: Attribute, Attributes, Classes, GUID, Object, Object identifier (OID), Schema, X.500

Global Observing System - permalink - collapse

All > Science > Climate Change

Global Observing System (GOS) Global network of observational stations which is the coordinated system of methods, techniques and facilities for making observations on a world-wide scale in the framework of the World Weather Watch, a WMO program.
NSIDC - Cite This Source - This Definition
Browse Related Terms: Atmospheric phenomenon, Error, Global Telecommunication System, observation, Observational network, stable state, Surface observation, Upper air observation, World Weather Watch

Global Positioning System (GPS) - permalink - collapse

All > Technology > Defense

The NAVSTAR Global Positioning System is a space-based radio navigation network providing precise positioning and navigation needs of all the military services. In the fully operational configuration, there will be 18 satellites in six orbital planes with an orbit period of 12 hours at 10,900 nautical miles altitude. Each satellite transmits three L-band, pseudo-random noise-coded signals, one S-band, and one ultra high frequency for spacecraft-to-spacecraft data relay.
DoD Missile Defense Agency - Cite This Source - This Definition
Browse Related Terms: FOBS, Inclination, OIS, OMU, Orbital Elements, Orbital Maneuvering Vehicle (OMV), Period (nodal), Prograde Orbit, Retrograde Orbit

All > Technology > Telecommunications

A US satellite system that lets those on the ground, on the water or in the air determine their position with extreme accuracy using GPS receivers.
Federal Communications Commission - Cite This Source - This Definition
See GPS.
ATIS - Cite This Source - This Definition
Browse Related Terms: GPS, loran, ranging

Global positioning systems (GPS) - permalink - collapse

All > Science > Water

Space-based radio positioning systems that provide 24-hour, three-dimensional position, velocity, and time information to suitably equipped users anywhere on or near the surface of the Earth.

Bureau of Reclamation - Cite This Source - This Definition
Browse Related Terms: Excess capacity, Name plate capacity, Overamping, Peaking capacity, Spinning reserves, stability, Standby reserves, Substation capacity

Global Protection Against Limited Strikes (GPALS) - permalink - collapse

All > Technology > Defense

OBSOLETE. GPALS was an architecture denoting an anti-missile system designed to provide protection against limited ballistic missile strikes, be they deliberate, accidental or unauthorizedwhatever their source. GPALS was composed of three interrelated segments: (1) theater ballistic missile defenses, and associated space-based sensors, to protect U.S. forces deployed abroad, and our friends and allies; (2) ground-based defenses, with space sensors, to protect the entire United States against long-range ballistic missiles; and (3) interceptors based in space Brilliant Pebbles capable of providing continuous, global coverage by intercepting enemy ballistic missiles with ranges greater than several hundred miles.
DoD Missile Defense Agency - Cite This Source - This Definition
Browse Related Terms: AULS, Global Protection Against Limited Strikes (GPALS) Program, GPALS, TPALS

Global Protection Against Limited Strikes (GPALS) Program - permalink - collapse

All > Technology > Defense

OBSOLETE. The GPALS Program consisted of six Major Defense Acquisition Programs: GPALS System/BMC 3 , National Missile Defense (NMD), Global Missile Defense (GMD), Upper Tier Theater Missile Defense (UTTMD), Corps SAM, and PATRIOT. Army PEO GPALS was re-designated PEO Missile Defenses in 1992.
DoD Missile Defense Agency - Cite This Source - This Definition
Browse Related Terms: AULS, Global Protection Against Limited Strikes (GPALS), GPALS, TPALS

global security environment - permalink - collapse

All > Technology > Telecommunications

A security domain in a System Security policy. The GSE is the general security environment in which the system is located. It covers everything outside the control of the System or Project Manager which may have a bearing on the security of the system and which is therefore deemed to be the responsibility of the DSO [CESG]. See also: Electronic Security Environment, Local Security Environment.
ATIS - Cite This Source - This Definition
Browse Related Terms: configuration management, configuration management board, departmental security officer, National Communications System (NCS), security function, security measure, security operating procedures (SyOPs), security requirement, System Administrator, System Manager, system security officer

global status - permalink - collapse

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The set of attributes of an entity, described at a particular time, when that set is extended to every occurrence of that entity within a prescribed boundary. 2. The complete set of attributes necessary to describe an entity at a particular time.
ATIS - Cite This Source - This Definition
Browse Related Terms: abstract syntax, abstract syntax notation one (ASN.1), concrete syntax, D

global system for mobile communications (GSM) - permalink - collapse

All > Technology > Telecommunications

A public, all-digital cellular network that is standardized worldwide and that uses (a) TDMA techniques for multiplexing at approximately 900 MHz, (b) compressed voice at about 13 kb/s, (c) 16 kb/s circuit-switching technology, and (d) error-correcting algorithms.
ATIS - Cite This Source - This Definition
Browse Related Terms: Automatic Secure Voice Communications Network (AUTOSEVOCOM), AUTOSEVOCOM, GSM

global system key - permalink - collapse

All > Technology > Operating System > Microsoft Windows > Microsoft Windows Server

A tool used to configure the startup key, a random, 128-bit, symmetric cryptographic key created at system startup and used to encrypt all of the user`s symmetric cryptographic keys.
Microsoft - Cite This Source - This Definition
Browse Related Terms: anti-hammering, brute force attack, external key, external key file, hammering, key search attack, startup key, SYSKEY

Global Telecommunication System - permalink - collapse

All > Science > Climate Change

Global Telecommunication System (GTS) The coordinated global system of telecommunication facilities and arrangements for the rapid collection, exchange and distribution of observational data in the framework of the World Weather Watch, a WMO program.
NSIDC - Cite This Source - This Definition
Browse Related Terms: Atmospheric phenomenon, Error, Global Observing System, observation, Observational network, stable state, Surface observation, Upper air observation, World Weather Watch

Global Temperature Change - permalink - collapse

All > Science > Weather

The net result of four primary factors including the greenhouse effect, changes in incoming solar radiation, altered patterns of ocean circulations, and changes in continental position, topography and/or vegetation. Three feedback mechanisms which affect global temperature change include cloud height and amount, snow and ice distribution, and atmospheric water vapor levels.
NOAA National Weather Service - Cite This Source - This Definition
Browse Related Terms: General circulation, Global Warming, Lapse rate, Rocketsonde, Tropopause

global title (GT) - permalink - collapse

All > Technology > Telecommunications

A "logical" or "virtual" address used for routing Signaling System No. 7 (SS7) messages using signaling connection control part (SCCP) capabilities. To complete message routing, a GT must be translated to a SS7 point code and subsystem number. [T1.711-1999]
ATIS - Cite This Source - This Definition
Browse Related Terms: batched transmission, connection-minute, conversation-minute, data conferencing repeater, loop transmission, mail gateway, Message Digest, minimize, receive only (RO)

global variable - permalink - collapse

All > Technology > Programming > Java

A phenomenon that is more usually regarded as being a problem in structured programming languages than in object-oriented languages. In a structured programming language, such as Pascal or C, a global variable is one defined outside the procedures and functions of a program. It is difficult to keep track of the usage of such a variable as it is readable and writable by the whole program or module in which it is defined. This makes such variables a common source of logical errors. In fact, instance variables pose a similar problem within class definitions, since Java's scope rules make them accessible to all methods defined within a class. This is one of the reasons why we prefer to channel access to instance variables through accessor and mutator methods even within a class.
David J. Barnes - Cite This Source - This Definition
Browse Related Terms: class, classpath, encapsulation, functional programming, imperative programming, lexicographic ordering, locale, method

Global Warming - permalink - collapse

All > Science > Climate Change

an increase in temperature that occurs globally such as during the transition from a glacial to an interglacial climate state, or that predicted to result from human increases in greenhouse gases.
NCDC National Climatic Data Center - Cite This Source - This Definition
The progressive gradual rise of the earth's surface temperature thought to be caused by the greenhouse effect and responsible for changes in global climate patterns. An increase in the near surface temperature of the Earth. Global warming has occurred in the distant past as the result of natural influences, but the term is most often used to refer to the warming predicted to occur as a result of increased emissions of greenhouse gases. See climate change, greenhouse effect, enhanced greenhouse effect, radiative forcing.
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Global warming is an average increase in the temperature of the atmosphere near the Earth's surface and in the troposphere, which can contribute to changes in global climate patterns. Global warming can occur from a variety of causes, both natural and human induced. In common usage, "global warming" often refers to the warming that can occur as a result of increased emissions of greenhouse gases from human activities. See climate change, greenhouse effect, enhanced greenhouse effect, radiative forcing, troposphere.
Source: 2006 U.S. Inventory of Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Sinks: Fast Facts (PDF, 2 pp., 220 KB, About PDF)
EPA - Cite This Source - This Definition
Browse Related Terms: abrupt climate change, adaptation, Carbon Dioxide Fertilization, Climate Change, Climate Lag, Climate Sensitivity, Emissions, forcing, Forcing Mechanism, Irreversibilities, mechanism, Nonlinearities, Radiative Forcing

All > Science > Weather

An overall increase in world temperatures which may be caused by additional heat being trapped by greenhouse gases.
NOAA National Weather Service - Cite This Source - This Definition
Browse Related Terms: General circulation, Global Temperature Change, Lapse rate, Rocketsonde, Tropopause

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Global fund - permalink - collapse

Global Grid Forum - permalink - collapse

global group - permalink - collapse

global information infrastructure - permalink - collapse

globally unique identifier - permalink - collapse

Globally Unique Identifier (GUID) - permalink - collapse

Global Observing System - permalink - collapse

Global Positioning System (GPS) - permalink - collapse

Global positioning systems (GPS) - permalink - collapse

Global Protection Against Limited Strikes (GPALS) - permalink - collapse

Global Protection Against Limited Strikes (GPALS) Program - permalink - collapse

global security environment - permalink - collapse

global status - permalink - collapse

global system for mobile communications (GSM) - permalink - collapse

global system key - permalink - collapse

Global Telecommunication System - permalink - collapse

Global Temperature Change - permalink - collapse

global title (GT) - permalink - collapse

global variable - permalink - collapse

Global Warming - permalink - collapse