List of acronyms: G

(Main list of acronyms)


 * g – (s) Gram
 * G – (s) Gauss – (i) General Audiences (movie rating) - Gewehr (German, rifle)

G0–9

 * G1 – (s) Assistant Chief-of-Staff, Personnel
 * G2 – (s) Assistant Chief-of-Staff, Intelligence
 * G3 – many, including Heckler & Koch G3; see entry – (s) Assistant Chief-of-Staff, Operations and Plans
 * G4
 * (i) Generation Four PowerPC microprocessor
 * (s) Assistant Chief-of-Staff, Logistics
 * G5
 * (i) Generation Five PowerPC microprocessor
 * Group of Five conferences (US college sports, especially football)
 * (s) Assistant Chief-of-Staff, Public Affairs
 * G6
 * (s) Assistant Chief-of-Staff, Information Technology
 * (i) Group of 6 (France, Germany, United States, Japan, United Kingdom, Italy) (1975)
 * G7 – (s) Assistant Chief-of-Staff, Training – (i) Group of 7 (G6 + Canada) (1976)
 * G8 – (s) Assistant Chief-of-Staff, Finance – (i) Group of 8 (G7 + Russia) (1998)
 * G9 – (s) Assistant Chief-of-Staff, Civil-Military Co-operation (CIMIC)
 * G10 – (i) Group of 10 (G7 + Belgium, Netherlands, Sweden, Switzerland; numbering 11 in fact)
 * G15 – (i) Group of 15 (subset of G77, formed 1989: Algeria, Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Egypt, India, Indonesia, Jamaica, Kenya, Nigeria, Malaysia, Mexico, Peru, Senegal, Sri Lanka, Venezuela and Zimbabwe; currently numbers 17)
 * G20 – (i) Group of 20 (G8 + Argentina, Australia, Brazil, China, India, Indonesia, Mexico, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, South Korea, Turkey + current European Union presiding country) (1999)
 * G24 – (i) Group of 24 (subset of G77, formed 1971: Algeria, Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, Côte d'Ivoire, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Egypt, Ethiopia, Gabon, Ghana, Guatemala, India, Iran, Lebanon, Mexico, Nigeria, Pakistan, Peru, Philippines, South Africa, Syria, Sri Lanka, Trinidad and Tobago and Venezuela)
 * G77 – (i) Group of 77 (issued from the United Nations Conference on Commerce and Development, 1964; currently numbers 133)

GA

 * Ga – (s) Gallium – Gigaannum
 * GA – (s) Gabon (ISO 3166 digram) – The Gambia (FIPS 10-4 country code) – (i) Gamblers Anonymous – Georgia (postal symbol) – Gigaampere – Goa (Indian state code) - (i) General Aviation
 * GAAR – (a) General Anti-Avoidance Rule (tax evasion)
 * GAB – (s) Gabon (ISO 3166 trigram)
 * GABA – (i) Gamma-AminoButyric Acid
 * GAD – (a) Generalized Anxiety Disorder
 * GALCIT – (a) Guggenheim Aeronautical Laboratory, California Institute of Technology
 * GAO – (i) U.S. Government Accountability Office
 * GAW – (i) Global Atmospheric Watch

GB

 * GB – (s) Gabon (FIPS 10-4 country code) – United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (ISO 3166 digram) [glamour boy 7-9/10]
 * GBA – Game Boy Advance
 * GBBC – (i) Great (Global) Backyard Bird Count
 * GBE – (i) Knight/Dame Grand Cross of the Order of the British Empire
 * GBH
 * (i) Great Bash Heel (Japanese professional wrestling stable)
 * Gregory Bonner Hale (British design and advertising agency)
 * Grievous bodily harm
 * GBP – (s) United Kingdom pound sterling (ISO 4217 currency code)
 * GBR – (s) United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (ISO 3166 trigram)
 * GBU – (i) Glide-Bomb Unit – Global Business Unit(s)

GC

 * GC
 * (s) East Germany (NATO country code; obsolete 1990)
 * (i) General classification (cycling)
 * General counsel
 * George Cross (British civil decoration)
 * (s) Gigacoulomb [Grindr cruise]
 * GCA – (i) Graduate in Claims Administration
 * GCCS – (i/a) Global Command and Control System ("geeks")
 * GCD – see entry
 * GCF – (i) Greatest Common Factor
 * GCI – (i) Ground-controlled interception
 * GCN – (i) Gamma-ray burst Coordination Network
 * GCS – (i) Global Coordinate System
 * GCSE – (i) General Certificate of Secondary Education (UK)
 * G-CSF – (i) Granulocyte Colony-Stimulating Factor

GD

 * gd – (s) Scottish Gaelic language (ISO 639-1 code)
 * Gd – (s) Gadolinium
 * GD – (s) Grenada (ISO 3166 digram)
 * GDC
 * (i) Game Developers Conference
 * General Dental Council
 * GDL – (i) Game Definition Language
 * GDP
 * (i) General Dental Practitioner (UK)
 * Gross Domestic Product
 * GDPR
 * (i) General Data Protection Regulation (EU law)
 * Gross domestic product of region
 * GDR – (i) German Democratic Republic (cf. DDR)
 * GDR – (i) General Distribution Release (Microsoft Term for a software service release; between Hotfix and Service Pack)
 * GDW – (i) Game Designers Workshop

GE

 * Ge – (s) Germanium
 * GE
 * (i) General Electric
 * Genetic Engineering (cf. GM)
 * (s) Georgia (ISO 3166 digram)
 * GEBCO – (a) General Bathymetric Chart of the Oceans
 * GEC – (i) Great Engineering Challenge
 * GED – (i) General Educational Development (high school equivalency credential in the U.S. and Canada)
 * GEEP – (i) Geophysical Equipment Exploration Platform
 * GEICO – (p/a) Government Employees Insurance Company (GUY-coh)
 * GEL
 * (s) Georgian lari (ISO 4217 currency code)
 * Gilbert and Ellice Islands (ISO 3166 trigram; obsolete 1977)
 * GEMA
 * (a) Gas and Electricity Markets Authority
 * Georgia Emergency Management Agency
 * (p) Gesellschaft für musikalische Aufführungs- und mechanische Vervielfältigungsrechte (German performance rights organisation)
 * (a) Global Engine Manufacturing Alliance
 * GEN – (s) Full General (four stars) in the U.S. Army
 * GEO
 * (a) Geostationary Earth Orbit
 * (s) Georgia (ISO 3166 trigram)
 * GEOS – (i) Graphical Environment Operating System
 * GEQ – (s) Equatorial Guinea (IOC trigram, but not FIFA or ISO 3166)
 * GER – (s) Germany (IOC and FIFA trigram, but not ISO 3166)
 * Gestapo – (p) GEheime STAatsPOlizei (German "secret state police")
 * GeV – (s) Gigaelectron-volt
 * GEV – (i) Ground Effect Vehicle

GF

 * GF
 * (s) French Guiana (ISO 3166 digram)
 * Gigafarad
 * GFCF
 * (i) Gluten-free, casein-free diet
 * Gross fixed capital formation
 * GFCI – (i) Ground Fault Circuit Interruptor (aka GFI)
 * GFDL – (i) GNU Free Documentation License
 * GFE
 * (i) Girlfriend experience (used in escort services)
 * Good Faith Estimate
 * Government Furnished Equipment
 * GFI – (i) Ground Fault Interruptor (aka GFCI)
 * GFL – (i) German Football League (Germany's Bundesliga for American football; the English-language name is used in German without translation)
 * GFN – (i) Global Footprint Network
 * GFW
 * (i) Global Force Wrestling – either the original incarnation or Impact Wrestling, which was briefly known under the name
 * (p) Great Firewall of China (cf. Internet censorship in China)
 * GFY – (i) "good for you" or "go fuck yourself", depending on the context (Internet chat)

GG

 * GG – (s) Georgia (FIPS 10-4 country code)
 * GGG – (i) Gennady Gennadyevich Golovkin, Kazakhstani boxer
 * GGK – Good God Karma
 * GGWP – Good Game Well Played
 * GGP
 * (i) General Game Playing

GH

 * GH – (s) Ghana (ISO 3166 digram; FIPS 10-4 country code) – Gigahenry
 * GHA – (s) Ghana (ISO 3166 trigram)
 * GHB – (i) gamma-Hydroxybutyric acid
 * GHC – (s) Ghanaian cedi (ISO 4217 currency code)

GI

 * Gi – (s) Gibi
 * GI
 * (i) Galvanised Iron
 * Gastro-Intestinal
 * General Issue
 * (s) Gibraltar (ISO 3166 digram; FIPS 10-4 territory code)
 * (i) Government Issue
 * Global Illumination
 * GIB – (s) Gibraltar (ISO 3166 trigram)
 * GIF – (a) Graphics Interchange Format
 * GIG – (a) Global Information Grid
 * GIGN – (i) Groupe d'intervention de la Gendarmerie nationale (French, "National Gendarmerie Intervention Group'), French police tactical unit
 * GIGO – (a) Garbage In Garbage Out (computing)
 * GIMP – (a) GNU Image Manipulation Program
 * GIN
 * (s) Guinea (ISO 3166 trigram)
 * (a) Guidelines International Network
 * GIP – (s) Gibraltar pound (ISO 4217 currency code)
 * GIS
 * (i) Geographic Information System
 * Google Image Search
 * GISS
 * (a/i) General Impression of Size and Shape
 * Goddard Institute for Space Studies

GJ

 * GJ – (s) Gigajoule – Grenada (FIPS 10-4 country code) – Gujarat (Indian state code)
 * GJD – (i) Geocentric Julian Day

GK

 * GK – (s) Gigakelvin – Guernsey (FIPS 10-4 territory code) - (s) Goalkeeper

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) Global'naya navigatsionnaya sputnikovaya sistema (Russian Глоба́льная Навигацио́нная Спу́тниковая Систе́ма, "Global Navigation Satellite System")
 * GLP – (s) Guadeloupe (ISO 3166 trigram)
 * GLSDB - (i) Ground Launched Small Diameter Bomb
 * GLUT – (a/i) OpenGL Utility Toolkit
 * glv – (s) Manx language (ISO 639-2 code)
 * GLV – (i) Gained Life Value

GM

 * Gm – (s) Gigametre
 * GM
 * (s) The Gambia (ISO 3166 digram)
 * (i) GameMaster (role-playing)
 * General Motors
 * Genetically Modified
 * (s) Germany (FIPS 10-4 country code)
 * (i) Guru Meditation (computing)
 * GMAC
 * (i) General Motors Acceptance Corporation, the original name of the company now known as Ally Financial
 * Graduate Management Admission Council
 * G-MAC
 * (i) Great Midwest Athletic Conference
 * GMB
 * (s) The Gambia (ISO 3166 trigram)
 * (i) General, Municipal, Boilermakers (and Allied Trade Union)
 * GmbH – (i) Gesellschaft mit beschränkter Haftung (German, "Company with limited liability")
 * GMC
 * (i) U.K. General Medical Council
 * Gospel Music Channel
 * GMD – (s) Gambian dalasi (ISO 4217 currency code)
 * GMFSC – (i) Ground Mobile Forces Satellite Communications
 * GMG - (i) Granatmaschinengewehr (German, Grenade Machine Gun)
 * GMI
 * (i) Generic Model Interface
 * Geometry Model Instance
 * GML
 * Generalized Markup Language
 * Geography Markup Language
 * Game Maker Language
 * Graph Modelling Language
 * Graphical Motion Language
 * GUI Markup Language
 * Hostomel Airport (IATA code)
 * GMO – (i) Genetically Modified Organism
 * GMPCS – (i) Global Mobile Personal Communications by Satellite
 * GMT
 * (i) Giant Magellan Telescope
 * Greenwich Mean Time

GN

 * gn – (s) Guaraní language (ISO 639-1 code)
 * GN
 * (s) Giganewton
 * Guinea (ISO 3166 digram)
 * GNAS – (p) Grand National Archery Society
 * GNB – (s) Guinea-Bissau (ISO 3166 trigram)
 * GNC
 * (i) "G&C Records" NetLabel
 * General Nutrition Centers (US sports nutrition retailer branded as GNC)
 * GNF – (s) Guinean franc (ISO 4217 currency code)
 * GNOME – (a) GNU Network Object Model Environment
 * GNP – (i) Gross National Product
 * GNQ – (s) Equatorial Guinea (ISO 3166 trigram)
 * GnRH – (p) Gonadotropin-Releasing Hormone
 * GNU – (a) GNU's Not Unix

GO

 * GO – (s) Glorioso Islands (FIPS 10-4 territory code)
 * GOA
 * (s) General of the Army (United States only)
 * (i) Gun Owners of America
 * GOAT – (s) Greatest of all time (LL Cool J album title)
 * GOC – (i) General Officer Commanding
 * GOES – (a) Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite
 * GOP – (i) Grand Old Party
 * GOP – (a) God of Porn
 * gorp – (a) granola, oats, raisins, peanuts (another name for trail mix), probably a backronym
 * GOSC – (a/i) General Officer Steering Committee
 * GOSH – (a) Great Ormond Street Hospital
 * GOSP – (a) Gas/Oil Separation Plant
 * GOTS – (a) Government off-the-shelf
 * GOWI – (a) Get On With It
 * GOYADIN – (a) Get Off Your Arse, Do It Now (anti-procrastination mantra)

GP

 * GP – (i) General Practitioner – General Purpose – Grand Prix – (s) Guadeloupe (ISO 3166 digram; FIPS 10-4 territory code)
 * GPA – (i) Grade Point Average
 * GPC – (i) Global Path Cache
 * GPG – (i) GNU Privacy Guard
 * GPIB – (i) General-Purpose Instrumentation/Interface Bus
 * GPL – (i) GNU General Public License
 * GPMP – (i) General Purpose Macro Processor
 * GPU - (i) General Purpose Machine Gun
 * GPO – (i) General Post Office
 * GPPC – (i) Genetics and Public Policy Center
 * GPR – (i) Ground-Penetrating Radar
 * GPS – (i) General Problem Solver – Global Positioning System
 * GPT – (i) GEC-Plessey Telecommunications – General Purpose Technology – Get Paid To website
 * GPU
 * (i) Gosudarstvennoye Politicheskoye Upravlenie (Russian Государственное Политическое Управление, "State Political Administration") (1922–1934)
 * (i) Graphics Processor Unit

GQ

 * GQ
 * (s) Equatorial Guinea (ISO 3166 digram)
 * (i) Gentlemen's Quarterly (the original name of the magazine now known simply as GQ)
 * (s) Guam (FIPS 10-4 territory code)

GR

 * 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])

GS

 * Gs – (s) Gigasecond
 * GS
 * (i) General Schedule (US civil service pay scale)
 * General Support
 * (s) Gigasiemens
 * South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands (ISO 3166 digram)
 * GSR – (i) Gun Shot Residue
 * GS-R – (i) General Support-Reinforcing
 * GSA – (i) U.S. General Services Administration
 * GSD – (i) Graphical Situation Display
 * GSG
 * (i) German Sport Guns
 * Global Scenario Group (former environmental research organization)
 * Grenzschutzgruppe (German, "Border Guard Group" — Germany's GSG 9 counterterrorist unit was originally a special branch of the border police)
 * GSGB – (God send glamour boy 9-10/10)
 * GSK – (p) GlaxoSmithKline [good sexual karma]
 * GSM
 * (i) General Service Medal
 * Grams per Square Metre (paper thickness; properly g/m2)
 * Ground Station Module
 * Groupe spécial mobile (French, "Special Mobile Group"; official expansion is now Global System for Mobile Communications)
 * GSN – (a/i) Game Show Network
 * GSO – (i) General Services Officer (U.S. Department of State)
 * GSOH – (i) Good Sense Of Humour
 * GSP – Georges St-Pierre (Canadian MMA fighter)
 * GSS – (i) Generic Security Services
 * GST – (i) Goods and Services Tax (Australia, Canada, and other countries)
 * GSW – (i) Gunshot wound

GT

 * GT – (s) Gigatesla – (i) Gran Turismo – Grand Touring – (s) Guatemala (FIPS 10-4 country code; ISO 3166 digram)
 * GTA – (i) Grand Theft Auto
 * GTB – (i) Get to bed, namely to get a new job after a long time of searching, usually following a phone call
 * GTC – (i) Gran Telescopio Canarias (Spanish, Canaries Great Telescope)
 * GTD – (i) Getting Things Done
 * GTFO – "Get the f**k out!"
 * GTG – (i) Good To Go (Internet chat)
 * GTK – (i) Good To Know (Internet chat)
 * GTGN – (i) Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names
 * GTM – (s) Guatemala (ISO 3166 trigram)
 * GTQ – (s) Guatemalan quetzal (ISO 4217 currency code)
 * GTV – (s) Gross Tumor Volume quetzal (ISO 4217 currency code)

GU

 * 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
 * GURPS - (a) Generic Universal RolePlaying System
 * GUT – (a) Grand Unification Theory

GV

 * gv – (s) Manx language (ISO 639-1 code)
 * GV – (s) Gigavolt – Guinea (FIPS 10-4 country code)

GW

 * GW – (i) Games Workshop – Germ Warfare – (s) Gigawatt – (i) Guided Weapon – (s) Guinea-Bissau (ISO 3166 digram)
 * GWARS – (p) Ground Warfare System (simulation)
 * GWAS – (p) Grand Western Archery Society
 * GWOT – (i) Global War on Terrorism
 * GWS – (i) Gulf War Syndrome – Greater Western Sydney

GX

 * 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

GY

 * GY – (s) Guyana (FIPS 10-4 country code; ISO 3166 digram)
 * GYD – (s) Guyana dollar (ISO 4217 currency code)
 * GYY – (s) Gary/Chicago International Airport (IATA Airport Code)

GZ

 * GZ – (s) Gaza Strip (FIPS 10-4 territory code) – (i) Ground Zero
 * GZK – (i) Greisen-Zatsepin-Kuzmin cut-off (cosmic ray energies)