g meaning

UK US /dʒi/ 1 syllable

g (noun): a metric unit of weight equal to one thousandth of a kilogram.

g has 9 meanings in this dictionary.

g as a noun

  1. a metric unit of weight equal to one thousandth of a kilogram

    Synonyms: gram, gramme, gm

    Type of: metric weight unit

  2. a purine base found in DNA and RNA; pairs with cytosine

    Synonyms: guanine

    Type of: purine

  3. one of the four nucleotides used in building DNA; all four nucleotides have a common phosphate group and a sugar (ribose)

    Synonyms: deoxyguanosine monophosphate

    Type of: nucleotide

  4. the cardinal number that is the product of 10 and 100

    Synonyms: thousand, one thousand, 1000, M, K, chiliad, grand, thou, yard

    Type of: large integer

    Kinds: millenary

  5. a unit of force equal to the force exerted by gravity; used to indicate the force to which a body is subjected when it is accelerated

    Synonyms: gee, g-force

    Type of: force unit

  6. a unit of information equal to 1000 megabytes or 10^9 (1,000,000,000) bytes

    Synonyms: gigabyte, GB

    Type of: computer memory unit

  7. a unit of information equal to 1024 mebibytes or 2^30 (1,073,741,824) bytes

    Synonyms: gigabyte, gibibyte, GB, GiB

    Type of: computer memory unit

  8. (physics) the universal constant relating force to mass and distance in Newton's law of gravitation

    Synonyms: gravitational constant, universal gravitational constant, constant of gravitation

    Type of: constant

  9. the 7th letter of the Roman alphabet

    Type of: letter

How to pronounce g

g is pronounced /dʒi/ in American English. It has 1 syllable.

Words that rhyme with g

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