Technology terms starting with G

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General Availability An FCS release that has demonstrated high availability and reliability over a sufficient number of customer sites.
general entity An entity that is referenced as part of an XML document's content, as distinct from a parameter entity, which is referenced in the DTD.
General Manager Program Management Directive (GPMD) OBSOLETE. The primary document used by the GM to direct the Service BMD PEO on the specific actions necessary to fulfill BMD program requirements.
general purpose computer A computer designed to perform, or that is capable of performing, in a reasonably efficient manner, the functions required by both scientific and business…
general purpose network See common user network.
general records Records that are common to many agencies within the same organization or type of government.
general records schedule A records schedule governing specified series of records common to several or all agencies or administrative units of a corporate body, which are…
general schedule A records retention schedule covering records common to several or all of the departments of an organization.
General Specifications A general specification covers requirements common to two or more types, classes, grades, or styles of products, services or materials; this avoids the…
General Support System An interconnected set of information resources under the same direct management control that shares common functionality.
general-purpose system A computer system that is designed to aid in solving a wide variety of problems [TCSEC].
generalization In general, reducing the number of points used to represent a line. In ARC/INFO, the process of removing vertices from arcs according to a specified…
Generation The electricity generated by a system as recorded by a KWH meter, recorded in KWH or MWH.
generation loss In analog recording, cumulative deterioration of signal quality introduced as a consequence of limitations of the recording electronics and storage…
generic Official nonbrand names by which medicines are known. Generic names usually refer to the chemical name of the drug.
Generic Accounts Named according to function rather than individual. Use for 3 activities: Testing, Development, Training.
Generic Application A resource type in a failover cluster or server cluster that supports an application that was not originally designed to run on a cluster.
Generic Rest of World Target (GROW) Strategic target being developed for GMD program.
Generic Script A resource type in a failover cluster or server cluster that supports an application controlled by a script that runs in Windows Script Host.
Generic Service A resource type in a failover cluster or server cluster that supports a service that was not originally designed to run on a cluster.
genlock The synchronization of two television signals at the vertical, horizontal, and chroma phase levels such that the signals may be cut, mixed, or cross-faded…
GEO Genetically engineered organism.
Geo enabled search The ability to sort, filter and/or rank documents based on their geographical distance from a given source position, typically the position of the…
Geo-Dispersed Cluster A geoÃ¢ÂÂdispersed, or multi-site, cluster is a cluster configuration used to help ensure high system and application availability in the event of…
Geo-stationary Orbit (GSO) An orbit 35,784 km above the equator. A satellite placed in such an orbit revolves around the earth once per day, maintaining the same position relative…
Geo-Targeting Advertising that is distributed based on geographic location. Online advertising allows for targeting of countries, states, cities and suburbs (in some…
Geo/Location In relation to relevancy, the importance of location in relation to the query term.
geocode Geocode refers to the combination of applicable codes for the metropolitan area, state, county and census tract.
Geocoding Assigning locational values (for example: latitude and longitude coordinates) to attribute data, such as an event or an address, that results in a feature…
GEODSS Ground-based Electro-Optical Deep Space Surveillance System.
geographic data The locations and descriptions of geographic features. The composite of spatial data and descriptive data.
geographic data set One of seven geographic data types supported by ARC/INFO. Geographic data sets in ARC/INFO include coverages, grids, DBMS tables, tins, images, lattices…
geographic database A collection of spatial data and related descriptive data organized for efficient storage and retrieval by many users.
geographic feature A user-defined geographic phenomenon that can be modeled or represented using geographic data sets in ARC/INFO.
geographic filing system classification of records by geographic location usually arranged by numeric code or in alphabetic order
Geographic Information Retrieval and Analysis (GIRAS) Geographic Information Retrieval and Analysis data files from the U.S. Geological Survey.
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…
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).
geometric optics The branch of optics that describes light propagation in terms of rays. Note 1: Rays are bent at the interface between two dissimilar media, and may be…
Geometric spreading As the sound moves away from the source, the area that the sound energy covers becomes larger and thus sound intensity decreases.
geometry Geometry deals with the measures and properties of points, lines and surfaces. In ARC/INFO, geometry is used to represent the spatial component of…
georeference To establish the relationship between page coordinates on a planar map and known real-world coordinates.
georelational model A geographic data model that represents geographic features as an interrelated set of spatial and descriptive data.
geostationary orbit A circular orbit in the equatorial plane, any point on which revolves about the Earth in the same direction and with the same period as the Earth's…
Geostationary Orbit (GSO) An orbit 35,784 km above the equator. A satellite placed in such an orbit revolves around the earth once per day, maintaining the same position relative…
Geostationary Satellite A satellite that rotates at the same rate as the earth, remaining over the same spot above the equator.
geostationary satellite orbit The orbit in which a satellite must be placed to be a geostationary satellite. [NTIA] [RR]
geosynchronous orbit Any orbit about the Earth, which orbit has a period equal to the period of rotation of the Earth about its axis, and in the same sense, i.e.
GeoTIFF A binary digital image format commonly used by GIS software that is characterized by reference information embedded in the file header as opposed to an…
GEP OBSOLETE. Ground Entry Point. IFICS.
germanium photodiode A germanium-based PN- or PIN-junction photodiode. Note 1: Germanium photodiodes are useful for direct detection of optical wavelengths from approximately…
GES Ground Engineering System.
GETS Abbreviation for Government Emergency Telecommunications Service (GETS).
GFE Government Furnished Equipment. See Government Furnished Property.
GFI Government Furnished Information.
GFM Government Furnished Material.
GFM/P Government Furnished Material and Property. See Government Furnished Property.
GFP Abbreviation for green fluorescent protein.
GFS (Global Forecast System) One of the operational forecast models run at NCEP. The GFS is run four times daily, with forecast output out to 384 hours.
GGF (Global Grid Forum) The Global Grid Forum was founded in 2001 when the merger of regional grid organizations created a single worldwide one
Ghost See Bit Stream Back-up.
Ghosting This condition occurs when two or more targets reside close to the same plane also containing two sensors viewing the targets so they are within…
GHz Giga Hertz (1 x 10(9) Hz).
gibibyte A contraction of giga binary byte, a gibibyte is 2^30 bytes or 1,073,741,824 bytes. A gigabyte is 10^9 or 1,000,000,000 bytes.
GID Group ID--in Unix, the numeric group ID that the "operating system" uses to identify you and members of your "group".
GIDEP Government/Industry Data Exchange Program.
GIF Generic Interface.
gigabit (Gb) One billion bits. Unit of measure for data transfer.
Gigabit and 10-Gigabit Ethernet An Ethernet technology that raises transmission speed to either 1Gbps or 10Gbps and is compatible with existing Ethernet networks.
Gigabit Ethernet (GbE) A type of high-speed network hardware. Also known as 1000base-T.
Gigabyte A unit of information or computer storage equal to 1,024Megabytes. Abbreviated GB, not to be confused with Gb, whichis used for gigabits.
Gigabyte (GB) A gigabyte is a measure of computer data storage capacity and is a billion (1,000,000,000) bytes.
gigaflop A billion, i.e., 109, floating point operations per second.
gigahertz (GHz) A unit of frequency denoting 109 Hz.
GII Global Information Infrastructure.
GIIS (Grid Index Information Service ) Grid Index Information Service is the database that contains indexes of resource information registered by the GRIS and other GIISs.
GIP Ground Impact Point.
GIS See Geographic information system
GITIS Government Integrated Technical Information System.
giveback The return of identity from the emulated filer to the failed filer, resulting in a return to normal operation. The reverse of takeover.
Gladwell, Malcolm Popular author who wrote the book titled The Tipping Point. See also: Gladwell.
Glare The excessive brightness from a direct light source that makes it difficult to see what one wishes to see.
glare master The Signaling System No. 7 (SS7) switch designated as control switch for circuits in the both-way circuit group.
glass In the strict sense, a state of matter. [FAA] 2. In fiber-optic communication, any of a number of noncrystalline, amorphous inorganic substances, formed…
GLCM Ground-Launched Cruise Missile.
glide slope facility In aeronautical navigation, an instrument approach landing facility that furnishes vertical guidance information to an aircraft from its approach altitude…
glob Strictly, the shell's * character, which will match a "glob" of characters when you're trying to generate a list of filenames.
global Something you can see from anywhere, usually used of variables and subroutines that are visible everywhere in your program.
global address In a communications network, the predefined address that is used as an address for all users of that network, and that may not be the address of an…
global area network (GAN) A network that (a) is composed of different interconnected computer networks and (b) covers an unlimited geographical area.
Global Catalog A directory database that applications and clients can query to locate any object in a forest.
Global Catalog (GC) The global catalog contains a partial replica of every Windows 2000 /Windows 2003 domain in the directory.
Global Catalog Server A Windows 2000 / Windows 2003 domain controller that holds a copy of the global catalog for the forest.
global destruction The "garbage collection" of globals (and the running of any associated object destructors) that takes place when a Perl "interpreter" is being shut down.
Global Environment The ISTC Global Environment is responsible for the creation, propagation, and maintenance of test scenario common knowledge, how subsets of this…
Global Environment (GE) The ISTC Global Environment is responsible for the creation, propagation, and maintenance of test scenario common knowledge, how subsets of this…
Global File System In some configurations, as with clusters or multiple NAS boxes, it is useful to have a means to make the file systems on multiple servers or devices look…
global functional plane (GFP) The plane in the intelligent network conceptual model that defines service independent building blocks (SIBs) used in providing service features. [T1.
Global Grid Forum The standards body for defining standard specifications for global grids. www.gridforum.org
global group A collection of user accounts in a Windows NT domain that are members of the domain in which the global group is defined.