List of acronyms: G

This list contains acronyms, initialisms, and pseudo-blends  that begin with the letter G.

For the purposes of this list:

  • acronym = an abbreviation pronounced as if it were a word, e.g., SARS = severe acute respiratory syndrome, pronounced to rhyme with cars
  • initialism = an abbreviation pronounced wholly or partly using the names of its constituent letters, e.g., CD = compact disc, pronounced cee dee
  • pseudo-blend = an abbreviation whose extra or omitted letters mean that it cannot stand as a true acronym, initialism, or portmanteau (a word formed by combining two or more words).
(a) = acronym, e.g.: SARS – (a) severe acute respiratory syndrome
(i) = initialism, e.g.: CD – (i) compact disc
(p) = pseudo-blend, e.g.: UNIFEM – (p) United Nations Development Fund for Women
(s) = symbol (none of the above, representing and pronounced as something else; for example: MHz – Megahertz)

(Main list of acronyms)

  • g – (s) Gram
  • G – (s) Gauss – (i) General Audiences (movie rating)

G0–9

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  • GG – (s) Georgia (FIPS 10-4 country code)
  • GGK – Good God Karma
  • GGWP – Good Game Well Play
  • GGP
    • (i) General Game Playing

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GL
  • gl – (s) Galician language (ISO 639-1 code)
  • GL
    • (s) Gigalitre
    • (i) Graphics Language
    • (s) Greenland (ISO 3166 digram; FIPS 10-4 territory code)
    • (i) Grenade Launcher
  • gla – (s) Scottish Gaelic language (ISO 639-2 code)
  • GLAAD – (a) Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation
  • GLAC – (a) General Ledger Accounting Code
  • GLAST – (a) Gamma-ray Large Area Space Telescope
  • GLBA – (i) Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act
  • GLC – (i) Gas-liquid chromatography
  • gle – (s) Irish language (ISO 639-2 code)
  • glg – (s) Galician language (ISO 639-2 code)
  • GLINT
    • (a) Gallium-arsenide Laser Illuminator for Night TV
    • Gated Laser Illuminator for Narrow Television
    • (p) Gated Laser Intensifier (tape)
    • Gospel Literature International
    • Graphical Linux Installation Tool
  • GLONASS – (a) Globalnaya navigatsionnaya sputnikovaya sistema (Russian Глоба́льная Навигацио́нная Спу́тниковая Систе́ма, "Global Navigation Satellite System")
  • GLP – (s) Guadeloupe (ISO 3166 trigram)
  • GLUT – (a/i) OpenGL Utility Toolkit
  • glv – (s) Manx language (ISO 639-2 code)
  • GLV – (i) Gained Life Value

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  • GR – (s) Greece (FIPS 10-4 country code; ISO 3166 digram) – Hail (METAR Code)
  • GRAIL – (i) Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory
  • GRAS – (i) Generally recognized as safe (FDA list)
  • GRB – (i) Gamma-ray burst
  • GRC – (s) Greece (ISO 3166 trigram)
  • GRD – (s) Grenada (ISO 3166 trigram)
  • GRE
    • (i) Graduate Record Examination
    • (s) Greece (IOC and FIFA trigram, but not ISO 3166)
  • grep – (a) [search] Globally for Regular Expression, Print [lines]
  • GRid – Global Release Identifier, a music industry identifier from the RIAA and IFPI
  • GRID – (a) Gay-Related Immune Deficiency (original name of AIDS)
  • GriT – (a) Girl raised in Texas (Woman presenting firm southern traits/beliefs)
  • GRL – (s) Greenland (ISO 3166 trigram)
  • GRN
    • (s) Grenada (IOC and FIFA trigram, but not ISO 3166)
    • (i) Goods received note
  • grn – (s) Guaraní language (ISO 639-2 code)
  • GRP – (i) Graphite-reinforced plastic, see Carbon-fiber-reinforced polymer
  • GRU – (i) Glavnoje Razvedyvatel'noje Upravlenije/Главное Разведывательное Управление (Russian, "Main Intelligence Directorate" [of the former Soviet and now Russian armed forces])

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  • gu – (s) Gujarati language (ISO 639-1 code)
  • GU – (s) Guam (postal symbol; ISO 3166 digram)
  • GUA – (s) Guatemala (IOC and FIFA trigram, but not ISO 3166)
  • GUF – (s) French Guiana (ISO 3166 trigram)
  • GUI – (a) Graphical user interface ("goo-ey")
  • GUILT – (a) Gangliated Utrophin Immuno Latency Toxin
  • guj – (s) Gujarati language (ISO 639-2 code)
  • GULCR – (i) Grupo de Usuarios de Linux de Costa Rica
  • Gulag – (p) Glavnoye Upravleniye ispravitelno-trudovykh LAGerei i kolonii (Russian Главное Управление Исправительно—Трудовых Лагерей и колоний, "Main Directorate of Corrective Labour Camps")
  • GUM
    • (a) Glavnyi Universalnyi Magazin (Russian Главный Универсальный Магазин, "Main Department Store"; known in Soviet times as Gosudarstvennyi Universalnyi Magazin/Государственный Универсальный Магазин, "State Department Store")
    • (s) Guam (ISO 3166 trigram)
    • Guide to the expression of Uncertainty in Measurement
  • GUT – (a) Grand Unification Theory

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  • GXA – (p) Global XML Web Services Architecture
  • GXE – (s) Gene–environment interaction
  • GXF – (p) General Exchange Format
  • GXH – (i) IATA code of Gannan Xiahe Airport
  • GXL – (p) Graph eXchange Language
  • GXM – (p) Matrox Graphics eXpansion Module
  • GXP – (p) Grid Exit Point - (i) Global Xchange Programme - (i) Indication of highest performance level on some Pontiac vehicles
  • GxP – (i) Good X Practice (X can mean: clinical, manufacturing, pharmaceutical, etc.)
  • GXY – (i) IATA code of Greeley-Weld County Airport

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