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  1. Grazing lease An authorization that permits the grazing of livestock on public lands outside the grazing districts during a specified period of time (Section 15 of the…
  2. GRC General Research Corporation.
  3. GRDL Gradual
  4. Great Basin An area covering most of Nevada and much of western Utah, as well as portions of southern Oregon and southeastern California, consisting primarily of…
  5. great circle A circle defined by the intersection of the surface of the Earth and any plane that passes through the center of the Earth.
  6. Great Circle Track A great-circle track is the shortest distance between two points on a sphere, and when viewed on a 2-dimensional map the track will appear curved.
  7. Great Lakes Faxback Dissemination systems housed at Weather Forecast Office (WFO) Cleveland by which Great Lakes customers request and receive hard copies of selected marine…
  8. Great Lakes Freeze-Up/Break-Up Outlook (FBO) - A National Weather Service product to keep mariners informed of the projected freeze-up date or break-up date of ice on the Great Lakes.
  9. Great Lakes Marine Forecast (MAFOR) A National Weather Service coded summary appended to each of the Great Lakes Open Lakes forecasts.
  10. Great Lakes Storm Summary (GLS) - A National Weather Service forecast product providing updated information whenever a storm warning is in effect on any of the Great Lakes.
  11. Great Lakes Weather Broadcast (LAWEB) - A National Weather Service product containing an observation summary prepared to provide Great Lakes mariners with a listing of weather…
  12. greedy A "subpattern" whose "quantifier" wants to match as many things as possible.
  13. Green Building or Green Design Building design that yields environmental benefits, such as savings in energy, building materials, and water consumption, or reduced waste generation.
  14. Green card Permanent Resident Card, Form I-551 (formerly called Alien Registration Card, also known as green card), is a wallet-sized card showing that the person is…
  15. Green Certificates Green certificates represent the environmental attributes of power produced from renewable resources.
  16. Green Code Interface Software.
  17. Green Fluorescent Protein (Abbreviation: GFP). A protein derived from a species of jelly fish, that fluoresces when exposed to ultra violet light.
  18. Green fluorescent protein (GFP) Fluorescent-protein dye used to tag and trace particular genes and cells of interest.
  19. Green fund A mutual fund that selects investments based on a commitment to environmental principles may be described as a green fund.
  20. Green Line The green line is one of the strongest (and first-recognized) visible coronal lines. It identifies moderate temperature regions of the CORONA.
  21. Green logging The logging of timber that is still alive.
  22. Green Power A popular term for energy produced from clean, renewable energy resources.
  23. Green Pricing A practice engaged in by some regulated utilities (i.e. power providers) where electricity produced from clean, renewable resources is sold at a higher…
  24. Green revolution Advances in genetics, petrochemicals, and machinery that culminated in a dramatic increase in crop productivity during the third quarter of the 20th…
  25. Green shoe clause A green shoe clause allows the group of investment banks that underwrite an initial public offering (IPO) to buy and offer for sale 15% more shares at the…
  26. green tea extract A substance that is being studied in the prevention of cancer. It is made from decaffeinated green tea, and contains chemicals called catechins, which are…
  27. Green ton 2,000 pounds of undried biomass material. Moisture content must be specified if green tons are used as a measure of fuel energy.
  28. Greene Menopause Index A tool used by researchers to study the symptoms of menopause. It is a standard list of 21 questions which women use to rate how much they are bothered by…
  29. Greenfields Newly developed commercial real estate on what was previously undeveloped open space.
  30. Greenhouse The upper area of a race car that extends from the base of the windshield in the front, the tops of the doors on the sides and the base of the rear window…
  31. Greenhouse Effect A popular term used to describe the heating effect due to the trapping of long wave (length) radiation by greenhouse gases produced from natural and human…
  32. Greenhouse Gas Some greenhouse gases, which contribute to the greenhouse effect, occur naturally in the atmosphere while others result from human activities such as the…
  33. Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Any gas that absorbs infrared radiation in the atmosphere. Greenhouse gases include, but are not limited to, water vapor, carbon dioxide (CO2), methane…
  34. Greenhouse gase (GHG) Heat-trapping gases that cause global warming. Natural and human-made greenhouse gases include water vapor, carbon dioxide, methane, nitrogen oxides…
  35. Greenhouse Gases Those gases, such as water vapor, carbon dioxide, tropospheric ozone, methane, and low level ozone that are transparent to solar radiation, but opaque to…
  36. Greenland High Greenland High The anticyclone that appears to overlie Greenland; analogous to the Antarctic anticyclone.
  37. Greens Chips valued at $25.
  38. Greenway A linear open space; a corridor composed of natural vegetation. Greenways can be used to create connected networks of open space that include traditional…
  39. Greenwich Civil Time (GCT) Synonym Greenwich Mean Time (GMT). Obsolete term. See Coordinated Universal Time.
  40. Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) Same as Coordinated Universal Time (UTC); the international time standard kept at Greenwich, England.
  41. Greenwood Freshly cut, unseasoned, wood.
  42. grep Originally from the old Unix editor command for "Globally search for a Regular Expression and Print it", now used in the general sense of any kind of…
  43. Grey Hat SEO SEO using both Black Hat and White Hat techniques.
  44. Greywater Waste water from a household source other than a toilet. This water can be used for landscape irrigation depending upon the source of the greywater.
  45. GRIB (Gridded Binary Format) - A format used for meteorological data. Typically used in the past for computer generated model data but will be used…
  46. Grid A common term referring to an electricity transmission and distribution system.
  47. grid cell A discretely uniform unit that represents a portion of the Earth, such as a square meter or square mile.
  48. Grid Component The grid component is a super class of object that represents every managed entity, whether physical or logical, within an enterprise grid.
  49. Grid Computing The use of pools of resources onto which applications or services may be dynamically provisioned and re-provisioned to meet the goals of one or more…
  50. Grid connection Joining a plant that generates electric power to a utility system so that electricity can flow in either direction between the utility system and the…
  51. grid map file A file containing entries mapping certificate subjects to local user names. This file can also serve as a access control list for GSI enabled services and…
  52. Grid operator An entity that oversees the delivery of electricity over the grid to the customer, ensuring reliability and safety.
  53. Grid Resource Allocation and Management (GRAM) (GRAM) Comprises a set of WSRF-compliant Web services to locate, submit, monitor, and cancel jobs on Grid computing resources.
  54. grid security directory The directory containing GSI configuration files such as the GSI authorization callout configuration and GAA configuration files.
  55. Grid Security Infrastructure (GSI) GSI stands for Grid Security Infrastructure and is used to describe the original infrastructure of GT security, which is comprised of SSL, PKI and proxy…
  56. Grid-Connected System Independent power systems that are connected to an electricity transmission and distribution system (referred to as the electricity grid) such that the…
  57. GridFTP The Grid File Transfer Program provides high-performance and reliant data transfer.
  58. Grids 1) Squared off areas across the terrain used to define forecast areas. Often 5x5 or 2.5x2.5 kilometer in size.
  59. Grief Actions taken to be annoying or to spoil the game experience of someone else.
  60. grief (GREEF) The normal response to a major loss, such as the death of a loved one. Grief may also be felt by a person with a serious, long-term illness or with a…
  61. grief counseling (greef KOWN-suh-ling) The process by which a trained counselor or a support group helps a person work through normal feelings of sorrow after a loss, such…
  62. grief therapy (greef THAYR-uh-pee) Treatment that helps a person work through a greater than normal reaction to a loss, such as the death of a loved one.
  63. Griefer A person who purposely tries to annoy or anger other players.
  64. Grievance A complaint that you communicate to your health insurer or plan.
  65. Griffin Book A book of suspected card counters and casino cheaters provided to casinos by Griffin Investigations.
  66. Griffin Investigations A private investigator corporation which specializes in casino cheating and card counters.
  67. Grifter A scam artist.
  68. Grille A decorative, openwork grating, usually of iron, used to protect a window, door, or other opening.
  69. Grind A small money player.
  70. Grind Down The casino gradually winning all of a player's money due to the advantage it has on bets.
  71. Grind Joint A casino that caters to Low Rollers or small-money players.
  72. Grind System Increasing one's bet a unit after each win. Any system that attempts to win small amounts frequently against the casinos.
  73. Grinding Staying in the same area fighting the same types of monsters for a very long time.
  74. GRIS (Grid Resource Information Service) The Grid Resource Information Service is the repository of local resource information derived from information providers.
  75. Grizzly (grizzlie) A coarse screen used to remove oversize pieces from earth or blasted rock. A gate or closure on a chute.
  76. Gro-luxä A wide-spectrum fluorescent lamp suitable for artificial light for plant growth.
  77. Groin The area where the thigh meets the abdomen.
  78. Groove Refers to a specific route around a race track. There is often a high groove and a low groove.
  79. Gross Annual Income The income reported is the total gross annual income an institution relied upon in making the credit decision.
  80. Gross Calorific Value The heat produced by combusting a specific quantity and volume of fuel in an oxygen-bomb colorimeter under specific conditions.
  81. Gross crop value This value is the sum of annual receipts from sale of crops produced. Production of crops, such as pasture and hay which normally are consumed on the farm…
  82. Gross domestic income See Gross domestic income (GDI)
  83. Gross domestic income (GDI) The costs incurred and the incomes earned in the production of gross domestic product (GDP).
  84. Gross domestic investment The sum of gross private domestic fixed investment, the change in private inventories, and government gross investment.
  85. Gross domestic product See Gross domestic product (GDP)
  86. Gross domestic product (GDP) The market value of goods and services produced by labor and property in the United States, regardless of nationality; GDP replaced gross national product…
  87. Gross domestic product (GDP) by state A measurement of a state's output; it is the sum of value added from all industries in the state.
  88. Gross domestic product (GDP) price index Measures the prices paid for goods and services produced by the U.S. economy and is derived from the prices of personal consumption expenditures (PCE)…
  89. Gross domestic product (GDP)-by-industry accounts A set of accounts that present the contribution of each private industry and government to the Nation's gross domestic product (GDP).
  90. Gross domestic product price index See Gross domestic product (GDP) price index
  91. Gross domestic product-by-industry accounts See Gross domestic product (GDP)-by-industry accounts
  92. Gross domestic purchases The market value of goods and services purchased by U.S. residents, regardless of where those goods and services were produced.
  93. Gross domestic purchases price index Measures the prices paid for goods and services purchased by U.S. residents. This index is derived from the prices of personal consumption expenditures…
  94. Gross Generation The total amount of electricity produced by a power plant.
  95. gross heat of combustion see higher heating value
  96. 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.
  97. Gross Income Money, goods, services, and property a person receives that must be reported on a tax return. Includes unemployment compensation and certain scholarships.
  98. Gross investment The sum of gross private domestic investment, government gross investment, and balance on current account, national income and product acounts.
  99. Gross margin Gross margin, sometimes called gross profit, is the percentage by which profits exceed production costs.
  100. Gross misdemeanor A crime with penalties of imprisonment from 91 days to one year or a fine of not more than $3,000 or both.