ExpertGlossary acronyms starting with G

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Ga — Gallium (Ga) A chemical element, metallic in nature, used in making certain kinds of solar cells and semiconductor devices.
GDA — Renewable Resource Generation Development Area (GDA) Regions within Colorado with a concentration of renewable resources that provide a minimum of 1,000 MW of developable electric generating capacity.
GFE — Good Faith Estimate (GFE) A document which tells borrowers the approximate costs they will pay at or before settlement, based on common practice in the locality.
GFIP — Group Flood Insurance Policy (GFIP) Issued by the NFIP Direct Program in response to a presidential disaster declaration.
GGE — Gasoline Gallon Equivalent (GGE) The amount of fuel it takes to equal the energy content of one liquid gallon of gasoline.
GHAIAC — Georgia Healthcare-Acquired Infections Advisory Committee (GHAIAC) The Georgia advisory committee charged with making recommendations to the Georgia Department of Public Health (DPH) on the prevention of healthcare…
GHG — Greenhouse gase (GHG) Heat-trapping gases that cause global warming. Natural and human-made greenhouse gases include water vapor, carbon dioxide, methane, nitrogen oxides…
GHV — Gross heating value (GHV) The maximum potential energy in the fuel as received, considering moisture content (MC). It reflects the heat used to evaporate moisture.
Ginnie Mae — Government National Mortgage Association (Ginnie Mae) The Government National Mortgage Association, known as Ginnie Mae, guarantees mortgage-backed securities issued by approved private institutions and…
GIRAS — Geographic Information Retrieval and Analysis (GIRAS) Geographic Information Retrieval and Analysis data files from the U.S. Geological Survey.
GIS — Geographic Information System (GIS) A set of computer tools and procedures used to collect, manage, analyze and display information associated with a specific location; a computerized…
GIS — Graphic Information Systems (GIS) GIS technology is used to develop maps that depict resources or features such as soil types, population densities, land uses, transportation corridors…
gm/m^2 — liquid water path (gm/m^2) A measure of the weight of the liquid water droplets in the atmosphere above a unit surface area on the earth, given in units of kg m-2.
GMT — Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) Same as Coordinated Universal Time (UTC); the international time standard kept at Greenwich, England.
GOES — Geostationary Orbiting Environmental Satellite (GOES) Satellite orbiting at 22,000 miles above the earth's surface that remains above the same location on the earth.
GOSIP — Government Open System Interconnection Protocols (GOSIP) U.S. government procurement specifications for OSI protocols (see OSI). The government has mandated that all federal agencies standardize on the OSI model…
GPS — Global Positioning System (GPS) A navigation system which uses a constellation of artificial earth satellites to make precise determinations of the latitude and longitude of locations on…
GRASS — Geographical Resource Analysis Support System (GRASS) A public-domain raster GIS modeling product of the U.S. Army Corp of Engineers' Construction Engineering Research Laboratory (USACERL).
GSE — Government-Sponsored Enterprise (GSE) Business organizations chartered and sponsored by the federal government, which include Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, and the FHLBanks.
GSEs — Government-Sponsored Enterprise (GSEs) Private corporations created by the U.S. Government to reduce borrowing costs. They are chartered by the U.S.
GUI — graphical user interface (GUI) A graphical method of controlling how a user interacts with a computer to perform various tasks.
GVWR — Gross Vehicle Weight Rating (GVWR) The maximum weight of a vehicle, including curb weight (the weight of the vehicle on its own) and payload (the weight of cargo).
GW — Gigawatt (GW) A unit of power equal to 1 billion Watts; 1 million kilowatts, or 1,000 megawatts.
GW — Globex (GW) The electronic trading platform for the Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME). Since Sept.