Technology terms starting with G

442 terms

  1. G Abbreviation for guanine.
  2. G&C Guidance and Control.
  3. G&O Goals and Objectives.
  4. G/A Ground-to-Air
  5. G/G Ground-to-Ground.
  6. GA General Availability. An FCS release that has demonstrated high availability and reliability over a sufficient number of customer sites.
  7. GAA configuration file A file that configures the Generic Authorization and Access control GAA libraries.
  8. GaAs Gallium Arsenide.
  9. gain The ratio of output current, voltage, or power to input current, voltage, or power, respectively. Note 1: Gain is usually expressed in dB.
  10. gain hit See yyhit.
  11. gain medium An active medium, device, or system in which amplification of input occurs with or without feedback.
  12. gain of an antenna Synonym antenna gain.
  13. Gait An individual's manner of walking. This behavioral characteristic is in the research and development stage of automation.
  14. GAL (global address list) A list that contains all Exchange users, contacts, groups, conferencing resources, and public folders in an organization.
  15. galactic radio noise Synonym cosmic noise.
  16. Gallery A passageway within the body of a dam, its foundation, or abutments used for inspection, foundation grouting, and/or drainage.
  17. Galosh The Soviet Anti-Ballistic Missile system built to defend Moscow from missile attack.
  18. gamma correction In video, the insertion of a nonlinear output-input characteristic for the purpose of changing the system transfer characteristic.
  19. Gamma Ray A type of high-energy radiation that is different from an x-ray.
  20. Gamma-Ray Laser A laser which generates a beam of gamma rays; also called a graser . A gamma-ray laser, if developed, would be a type of x-ray laser; although it would…
  21. GAMS GPS (Global Positioning System)-Aided Munitions.
  22. Ganglia A cluster monitoring tool (re: WS MDS). See http://ganglia.sourceforge.net.
  23. GaNMPA Gallium Nitride Microwave Power Amplifiers. (A demonstration program to develop GaN based transistors and integrated circuits for power amplifiers in…
  24. GAO General Accounting Office.
  25. gap A missing section on one of the strands of double-stranded DNA. The DNA will therefore have a single-stranded region.
  26. GAP (Google Advertising Professional) Google Advertising Professional is a program which qualifies marketers as being proficient AdWords marketers.
  27. gap loss The power loss that occurs when an optical signal is transferred from one fiber to another that is axially aligned with it, but longitudinally separated…
  28. gap-loss attenuator An optical attenuator that exploits the principle of gap loss to reduce the optical power level when inserted in-line in the fiber path; e.g.
  29. gaps Periods of no speech activity or low-energy content signals present in the access channel of a wideband packet network. [T1.312-1991]
  30. GAR The GAR (Grid ARchive) file is a single file which contains all the files and information that the container needs to deploy a service.
  31. garbage collection The automatic detection and freeing of memory that is no longer in use. The Java runtime system performs garbage collection so that programmers never…
  32. garbage collector A daemon thread that recycles objects to which there are no extant references within a program.
  33. garble 1. An error in transmission, reception, encryption, or decryption that changes the text of a message or any portion thereof in such a manner that it is…
  34. GARDIAN General Area Defense Integrated Anti-missile Laser System.
  35. GASS (Global Access to Secondary Storage) Global Access to Secondary Storage is used for file staging and cache management.
  36. GAT Government Acceptance Testing.
  37. GAT CALL Guidance, Apportionment, and Targeting Call (JFACC term).
  38. Gate A device that controls the flow in a conduit, pipe, or tunnel without obstructing any portion of the waterway when in the fully open position.
  39. gatekeeper A small EMC Symmetrix device configured to function as a lock during certain state change operations.
  40. gateway An element that contained a node on the SDS backbone network as well as on some other network(s) and would have performed protocol and format conversions…
  41. Gateway Page A web page submitted to a search engine (spyder) to give the relevance-algorithm of that particular spyder the data it needs, in the format that it needs…
  42. gating The process of selecting only those portions of a wave between specified time intervals or between specified amplitude limits. 2.
  43. GATS GPS (Global Positioning System)-Aided Targeting System.
  44. gaussian beam A beam of light whose electric field intensity distribution is gaussian. Note: When such a beam is circular in cross section the intensity at distance r…
  45. gaussian filter A filter having a response curve (magnitude versus frequency) that approximates an ideal gaussian curve.
  46. gaussian pulse A pulse that has a waveform described by the gaussian distribution. Note: In the time domain, the amplitude of the waveform is given by where A is the…
  47. Gazetteer A geographical dictionary, an important reference for information about places and place-names and associated spatial location
  48. GB (1) Ground-Based. (2) Gigabyte.
  49. Gb (Gigabit) One billion bits. Unit of measure for data transfer.
  50. GB (Gigabyte) 1,073,741,824 bytes, or 1,024 megabytes. Unit of measure for computer storage. Sometimes defined as one billion bytes.
  51. Gb/s Abbreviation for gigabytes per second. See International System of Units.
  52. GBD Global Burst Detector.
  53. GBDL Ground-Based Data Link. 117
  54. GbE Gigabit Ethernet. A type of high-speed network hardware. Also known as 1000base-T.
  55. GBEV Ground Based Experimental Version.
  56. GBF/DIME For the 1980 census, the U.S. Census Bureau produced Geographic Base Files (GBF) and Dual Independent Map Encoding (DIME) files, containing census…
  57. GBFEL Ground-Based Free Electron Laser.
  58. GBH Abbreviation for group busy hour.
  59. GBHE Ground-Based Hypervelocity Gun Experiment.
  60. GBHRG Ground-Based Hypervelocity Rail Gun.
  61. GBI OBSOLETE. See Ground-Based Interceptor.
  62. GBI-P Ground-Based Interceptor Prototype.
  63. GBI-X Ground-Based Interceptor Experiment.
  64. GBIC (Gigabit Interface Converter) An acronym for "Gigabit Interface Converter". A GBIC is astandard for transceivers commonly used with Gigabit Ethernetand Fibre Channel.
  65. GBKV Ground-Based Kinetic Kill Vehicle.
  66. GBL Ground-Based Laser.
  67. GBLD Ground-Based Launcher Demonstration.
  68. GBLRS Ground-Based Laser Repeater Station.
  69. GBM A fast-growing type of central nervous system tumor that forms from glial (supportive) tissue of the brain and spinal cord and has cells that look very…
  70. GBMD Global Ballistic Missile Defense.
  71. GBMI Ground-Based Midcourse Interceptor.
  72. GBOS Ground-Based Optical System.
  73. GBPST Ground-Based Passive Signal Tracking.
  74. GBR See Ground-Based Radar.
  75. GBR-M Ground-Based Radar-Midcourse.
  76. GBR-O Ground-Based Radar-Objective.
  77. GBR-P Ground-Based Radar-Prototype.
  78. GBR-T 1. Ground-Based Radar-Theater [c. 1994]. 2. Terminal Defense /Ground-Based Radar [c. 1996].
  79. GBR-X The experimental version of the GBR.
  80. GBRF Ground-Based Radio Frequency.
  81. GBRI Ground-Based Rocket Interceptor.
  82. GBRT Ground-Based Radar Terminal.
  83. GBS Ground-Based Sensor.
  84. GC See definition for: Global Catalog (GC)
  85. GC&A 1. Guidance, Control, and Avionics. 2. Guidance, Control, and Airframe.
  86. GCA (1) Guidance, Control, and Avionics. (2) Guidance, Control, and Airframe.
  87. GCC Ground Component Commander (JFACC term).
  88. GCCS Global Command and Control System. 118
  89. GCF (Generic Connection Framework) The Generic Connection Framework (GCF) makes it easy for wireless devices to make network connections. It is part of CLDC and CDC and resides in the javax.
  90. GCI Ground Control Intercept.
  91. GCN Ground Communications Network.
  92. GCPD Global Child Production Domain
  93. GCS Ground Control Station.
  94. GCT Abbreviation for Greenwich Civil Time. See Coordinated Universal Time.
  95. GD General Dynamics.
  96. GDF Abbreviation for group distribution frame.
  97. GDL Gas Dynamic Laser.
  98. GEDI Ground-Based Electromagnetically-Launched Defensive Impactors .
  99. gel support medium (agarose) that holds DNA molecules in place during the separation phase of electrophoresis.
  100. GEM A genetically engineered microorganism.