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General Las Heras, Buenos Aires General Las Heras is a city and a municipality (partido) in the southwest of the province of Buenos Aires, Argentina, 67 km from Buenos Aires City and 120 km from the provincial capital La Plata, on Provincial Route 200. It has a population of about 13,000 as per the .
General Laws of Massachusetts Massachusetts General Law, also known as the General Laws of Massachusetts, is the collection of state laws of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Massachusetts is a state in the New England region of the United States of America.
General Learning Ability General Learning Ability is an Aptitude, commonly referred to as the "G" score, defined as the ability to "catch on" or understand instructions and underlying principles; ability to reason and make judgements. Closely related to doing well in school.
General Luna, Quezon The Municipality of General Luna (Filipino: Bayan ng Heneral Luna) is a fifth class municipality in the province of Quezon, Philippines. According to the 2000 census, it has a population of 21,068 people in 4,160 households.
General manager The term general manager is a descriptive term for certain executives in a business operation. It is also a formal title held by some business executives, although the duties of the general manager role vary by industry.
General manager (ice hockey) In the National Hockey League, the General Manager or GM of a team typically controls player transactions and bears the primary responsibility on behalf of the hockey club during contract discussions with players.
General medical services Despite many different contracting arrangements that have been and are being introduced for general medical service in the UK, General Practitioners (GPs) are, in principle, independent contractors with the government.
General Magic General Magic was a company co-founded by Bill Atkinson, Andy Hertzfeld and Marc Porat that developed new kind of handheld communications device they called a "personal intelligent communicator", which was a PDA precursor that stressed communications.
General Malice General Malice (born Clint Harley Ward) is a Minneapolis based raggacore artist and producer who is signed to US indie jungle labels Big Cat and N20 Records. He draws influence from Gangstarr, Kraftwerk, Slayer, Remarc, Ludacris, Ray Keith, DJ Shadow, Lee Perry, and Massive B.
General Maritime Corporation General Maritime Corporation operates crude oil tankers, mostly in the Atlantic Ocean and in the Caribbean, Mediterranean, Black, and North Seas. Founded in 1997 by current CEO Peter Georgiopoulos, as of 2004 the company is the second largest (based on cargo capacity) operator of mid-size tankers.
General McLane School District General McLane is the name of a school district located in Erie County, Pennsylvania. It comprises the townships of Franklin, McKean, and Washington; the boroughs of McKean and Edinboro are located in McKean and Washington townships, respectively.
General Medical Council The General Medical Council (the GMC) is the regulator of the medical profession in the United Kingdom. It licenses doctors to practice, and has the power to revoke the licence, or place restrictions, in cases of questions about a doctor's fitness to practice.
General Mediterranean Holdings The General Mediterranean Holdings (GenMed) is a financial holding company established in 1979 in Luxembourg City, in southern Luxembourg, through which Anglo-Iraqi billionaire Nadhmi Auchi control his financial empire. Nadhmi Auchi is "one of the most important intermediaries in the affairs of Middle Eastern countries.
General Mining Act of 1872 The General Mining Act of 1872 is a United States federal law which authorizes and governs prospecting and mining for economic minerals, such as gold and silver, on publicly owned lands. This law, approved on May 10th, 1872, codifies the informal system of acquiring and protecting mining claims on public land, formed by prospectors in California and Nevada from the late 1840s through the 1860s, such as during the California Gold Rush.
General MIDI General MIDI or GM is a specification for synthesizers which imposes several requirements beyond the more abstract MIDI standard. While MIDI itself provides a protocol which ensures that different instruments can interoperate at a fundamental level (e.
General Mobile Radio Service The General Mobile Radio Service (GMRS) is a land-mobile UHF radio service in the United States available for short-distance two-way communications to facilitate the activities of an adult individual who possesses a valid GMRS license, as well his or her immediate family members, including a spouse, children, parents, grandparents, aunts, uncles, nephews, nieces, and in-laws (47 CFR 95.179).
General Motors Centre The General Motors Centre (GMC) is a 5,500-seat multi-purpose arena located in Oshawa, Ontario. It is the home of the Oshawa Generals of the Ontario Hockey League, and is situated at the corner of Athol and Mary Streets in the city's downtown.
General Motors Companion Make Program General Motors pioneered the idea that consumers would aspire to buy up an automotive product ladder if a company met certain price points. As General Motors entered the 1920s, the product ladder started with the price leading Chevrolet marque, and then progressed upward in price, power and appointments to Oakland, Oldsmobile, Buick and ultimately to the luxury Cadillac marque.
General Motors EV1 The EV1 was the first purpose-built battery electric vehicle produced by General Motors (GM) in the United States and, at the time, was the only vehicle in the history of the company to bear the "General Motors" badge.
General Motors Firebird The General Motors Firebird is a series of three concept cars designed by Harley Earl, and built by General Motors for the 1953, 1956 and 1959 Motorama auto shows. They were very much inspired by innovations in fighter aircraft design at the time.
General Motors Place General Motors Place, sponsored by the General Motors Canada, is an indoor arena at 800 Griffiths Way in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Completed in 1995 at a cost of C$160 million in private financing, the arena is home to the Vancouver Canucks of the NHL, and was formerly home to the Vancouver Ravens of the NLL and the Vancouver Grizzlies of the NBA.
General Motors Technical Center The GM Technical Center is a General Motors facility in Warren, Michigan. The acclaimed campus is home to 16,000 GM engineers and technicians and has been the center of the company's engineering effort for 50 years.
General Motors Theatre General Motors Theatre (also known as CBC Theatre and General Motors Presents) was a Canadian television anthology series, which ran on the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation under its various titles from 1953 until 1961. First transmitted under the sponsored title on October 5 1954, a new 60-minute drama would be presented each week.
General Motors Ultralite The General Motors Ultralite was a 1992 low emission vehicle concept car intended to demonstrate the benefits of advanced materials and low fuel consumption. The carbon fiber shell was fabricated by Scaled Composites and it amounted to only 420 pounds.
General nondiscrimination The 1986 Tax Reform Act introduced the General Nondiscrimination rules which applied to qualified pension plans and 403(b) plans that for private sector employers. It did not allow such pension plans to discriminate in favor of highly compensated employees.
General number field sieve In mathematics, the general number field sieve (GNFS) is the most efficient algorithm known for factoring integers larger than 100 digits. Heuristically, its complexity for factoring an integer n is of the form
General National Archive (Colombia) The General National Archive (Spanish: Archivo General de la NaciĂłn) is charged by the government of Colombia with "conserving the historical legacy, as well as recovering and circulating the documentary heritage of the country." It was created in 1989 by Law 80.
General National Archive (Mexico) The General National Archive (Spanish: Archivo General de la NaciĂłn) is charged by the Mexican state to "be the governing body of the national archives and the central consultative entity of the Federal Executive." The writer Edmundo O'Gorman was its general director from 1938 until 1952.
General National Vocational Qualification A General National Vocational Qualification, or GNVQ, is a certificate of vocational education in the United Kingdom. These qualifications are related to occupational areas in general, rather than any specific job.
General obligation bond A general obligation bond is a common type of municipal bond in the United States that is secured by a state or local government's pledge to use legally available resources, including tax revenues, to repay bond holders.
General of the Armies General of the Armies of the United States is the highest possible land-based rank in the United States military hierarchy, equal to a Generalissimo. The rank of General of the Armies has only been bestowed twice in the history of the United States Army and only once in an active duty capacity.
General of the Army General of the Army is a military rank used in some countries of the world to denote a senior military leader, usually a General in command of a nation's Army. Less specifically, a General of the Army may also be the title given to a General who commands an Army in the field.
General of the Army (Russia) General of the Army (Russian: генерал армии, general armii) is the second highest military rank in the Russian Federation, inferior only to a Marshal. It is a direct counterpart of the Soviet rank, General of the Army (USSR).
General of the Army (USSR) General of the Army (Russian: генерал армии, general armii) was a rank of the Soviet Union which was first established in June 1940 as a high rank for Red Army generals, inferior only to the Marshal of the Soviet Union. In the following 51 years the USSR created 133 General of the Army, 32 of whom were later promoted to the rank of Marshal.
General order In militaries, a general order is a published directive, originated by a commander, and binding upon all personnel under his command, the purpose of which is to enforce a policy or procedure unique to his unit's situation which is not otherwise addressed in applicable service regulations, military law, or public law. A general order has the force of law; it is an offense punishable by court martial or lesser military court to disobey one.
General Obligado Department The General Obligado Department (in Spanish, Departamento General Obligado) is an administrative subdivision (departamento) of the province of Santa Fe, Argentina. It is located in the northeast of the province.
General Officer Commanding General Officer Commanding (GOC) is the usual title given in the armies of Commonwealth (and some other) nations to a general officer who holds a command appointment. Thus, a general might be the GOC II Corps or GOC 7th Armoured Division.
General Operations Forces General Operations Forces (Malay:Pasukan Gerakan Am) is a paramilitary unit of the Royal Malaysian Police. This unit created in 1948 during in Malayan Emergency when British Military Administration mobilisationed the General Duty police officer to relations with military in defeated the communist insugencies and it was then called Jungle Squad (Malay:Pasukan Polis Hutan, PPH).
General Optical Council The General Optical Council (GOC) is an organisation in the United Kingdom that regulates opticians and optometrists. Their main aims are, "to protect the public and promote high standards of professional conduct and education amongst opticians".
General Order â„– 1 General Order â„– 1 was General Douglas MacArthur's first order to the forces of the Empire of Japan following the Japanese surrender. It instructed Japanese forces to surrender to designated Allied commanders, reveal all current military deployments, and preserve military equipment for later disarmament.
General Orders for Sentries General Orders for Sentries is the official title of a set of rules governing guard duty in the United States military. While any guard posting has rules that may go without saying ("Stay awake", for instance), these orders are carefully detailed and particularly stressed in the United States Navy, United States Marine Corps, and United States Coast Guard.
General Otmin General Otmin is a minotaur in the 2005 movie The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe. Otmin does not appear in the book The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe as a named character, though there are several minotaurs mentioned in passing.
General position In geometry, general position for a set of points, or other configuration, means the general case situation, as opposed to some more special or coincidental cases that are possible. Its precise meaning differs in different settings.
General practitioner A general practitioner (GP), family physician or family practitioner (FP) is a physician/medical doctor who provides primary care. A GP/FP treats acute and chronic illnesses, provides preventive care and health education for all ages and both sexes.
General protection fault A general protection fault (GPF) in the Intel x86 architecture is a fault indicating that a currently executing program has in some way violated the rules of the hardware on which it is running. These rules are meant to protect programs from extremely obvious and potentially disastrous runtime errors.
General purpose datatypes General Purpose Datatypes (GPD) are a collection of datatypes defined independently of any particular programming language or implementation. These datatypes can be used to describe interfaces to existing libraries without having to specify the language (such as Fortran or C).
General purpose machine gun A general purpose machine-gun (GPMG) in concept is a multi-purpose weapon, a machine-gun intended to fill the role of either a light machine-gun or medium machine-gun, while at the same time being man-portable. However, performance in either role may be inferior to a weapon specifically designed for that role.
General purpose technology General purpose technologies (GPTs) describe great leaps of innovation that can affect an entire economy (usually at a national or global level). Unlike traditional technologies, which economists view as a smooth advancement, GPTs are drastic advancements that redefine society.
General Packet Radio Service General Packet Radio Service (GPRS) is a mobile data service available to users of GSM and IS-136 mobile phones. GPRS data transfer is typically charged per megabyte of transferred data, while data communication via traditional circuit switching is billed per minute of connection time, independently of if the user actually has transferred data or been in an idle state.
General Patent Corporation International General Patent Corporation International (also known as GPCI) is an Intellectual Property (IP) licensing and enforcement companyGeneral Patent Corporation International — main website. headquartered in Suffern, New YorkGeneral Patent Corporation — GPC website.
General Paz Juniors General Paz Juniors are an Argentine Football club, their home town is CĂłrdoba, in CĂłrdoba Province, Argentina. They currently play in Zone C of the regionalised 4th level of Argentinian football Torneo Argentino B.
General People's Congress of Libya The General People's Congress (Mu'tammar al-sha'ab al 'âmm) (Arabic: مؤتمر الشعب العام الليبي) consists out of circa 2700 representatives of the Basis People's Congresses. The GPC is the legislative forum that interacts with the General People's Committee, whose members are secretaries of Libyan ministries.
General Pershing Zephyr The General Pershing Zephyr was the ninth of the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad's Zephyr streamliners, and the last built as an integrated streamliner rather than a train hauled by an EMD E-unit diesel locomotive. It was constructed in 1939 with bodywork and passenger cars by Budd Company and diesel engine, electric transmission, power truck, and other locomotive equipment by General Motors' Electro-Motive Division.
General Physical Preparedness General Physical Preparedness, also known as GPP, lays the groundwork for later Specific Physical Preparedness, or SPP. In the GPP phase, athletes work on general conditioning to improve strength, speed, endurance, flexibility, structure and skill.
General Post Office (Dublin) The General Post Office (GPO) (Irish: Ard-Oifig an Phoist) in Dublin was at first held in a small building on the site of the Commercial Buildings, and was afterwards removed to a larger house opposite the bank on College Green (since converted into the Royal Arcade;) and on January 6, 1818, the new post-office in Sackville Street, later O'Connell Street, was opened for business. It is now the headquarters of An Post, the postal service of the Republic of Ireland.
General Post Office (United Kingdom) The British General Post Office (GPO) was officially established in 1660 by Charles II and it eventually grew to combine the functions of both the state postal system and telecommunications carrier. In 1969 it was abolished and the assets transferred to the newly-created Post Office Corporation, changing it from a Department of State to a Statutory Corporation which was in turn split into separate Post Office and British Telecommunications Corporations in 1981.
General Post Office, Kolkata The General Post Office, Kolkata is the central post office of the city of Kolkata, India and the chief post office of West Bengal. The post-office handles most of the city's inbound and outbound mail and parcels.
General Practice Residency A General Practice Residency (GPR) is a one or two year hospital based postgraduate training program for dentists seeking additional education. In the hospital setting, residents are exposed to a wide range of medically compromised patients needing dental care.
General Precision Equipment The General Precision Equipment Corporation was a major manufacturing company involved in the defense and space industries as well educational products and control devices for consumer goods. General Precision, Inc.
General Principles of the Civil Law of the People's Republic of China The General Principles of the Civil Law of the People's Republic of China (Chinese: ä¸ĺŤŽäşşć°‘共和国民法通ĺ™) is a law in the PRC promulgated in 1986 and coming into force in 1987. It is intended to create a consistent framework for civil law interpretation in the People's Republic of China, and is heavily influenced by the German Civil Code.
General Problem Solver General Problem Solver (GPS) was a computer program created in 1957 by Herbert Simon and Allen Newell to build a universal problem solver machine. Any formalized symbolic problem can be solved, in principle, by GPS.
General Products (Larry Niven) General Products is a fictional alien company which produces various spacecraft components, run by the Pierson's Puppeteers. It is used repeatedly by science fiction author Larry Niven in his stories that take place in his Known Space universe.
General Public The band General Public formed after the 1983 break-up of The Beat (known as The English Beat in North America). Ex-Beat vocalists Dave Wakeling and Ranking Roger joined up with keyboardist Mickey Billingham (Dexy's Midnight Runners), bassist Horace Panter (The Specials) and drummer Stoker (Dexy's Midnight Runners/The Bureau) to form the new band.
General Pulaski Memorial Day General Pulaski Memorial Day is a United States holiday in honor of General Kazimierz Pułaski, a Polish hero of the American Revolution. This holiday is held every year on October 11 by Presidential Proclamation, to commemorate his death at the Siege of Savannah on October 11, 1779 and to honor the heritage of Polish Americans.
General Pulaski's Day General Pulaski's Day is recognized by the state of Kentucky "in commemoration of the death of revolutionary General Casimir Pulaski. General Pulaski's Day is observed on October 11 of every year in Kentucky.
General radiotelephone operator license The General Radiotelephone Operator License, or GROL, is a commercial license, as opposed to an amateur radio certificate. It allows the holder to operate, maintain or install certain classes of United States licensed radio and television transmitters under authority of the Federal Communications Commision.
General relativity General relativity (GR) is the geometrical theory of gravitation published by Albert Einstein in 1915/16. It unifies special relativity and Sir Isaac Newton's law of universal gravitation with the insight that gravitation is not due to a force but rather is a manifestation of curved space and time, with this curvature being produced by the mass-energy and momentum content of the space-time.
General revelation General revelation is a theological term which refers to a universal aspect of God, his knowledge and of spiritual matters, discovered through natural means, such as observation of nature (the physical universe), philosophy and reasoning, human conscience or providence or providential history. Theologians use the term to describe knowledge of God which is plainly available to all mankind.
General Register Office The General Register Office (GRO) is that part of the government of the United Kingdom that deals with the civil registration of births, marriages, Civil Partnerships and deaths in England and Wales. It was founded in 1836, created by an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom (6 & 7 Will.
General Register Office for Scotland The General Register Office for Scotland is a non-ministerial department of the Scottish Executive that administers the registration of births, deaths, marriages, divorces and adoptions in Scotland. It is also responsible for the statutes relating to the formalities of marriage and conduct of civil marriage in Scotland.
General Retailers and Traders Union General Retailers and Traders Union (GRTU), or Association of General Retailers and Traders, is an association of small- and medium-sized businesses in Malta. It has over 7,000 members coming from 12,000 different business outlets.
General Revision Act The General Revision Act of 1891 provides for the repeal of the Timber Culture and Preemption Acts and authorizes the President, under the Forest Reserve Act, to create forest preserves "wholly or in part covered with timber or undergrowth, whether of commercial value or not....
General Rigarn Wild Beast General Rigarn (Moujuu Shougun Raigaan 猛獣将軍ă©ă‚¤ă‚¬ăĽăł)was a fictional character, a supervillain and warrior from the anime and manga series Great Mazinger. He was commander of the Mammalian Battle Beasts, one of the Seven Armies of the Mikene Empire.
General science General science is the name of a class usually taught in United States high schools and Junior High schools. It provides a brief overview of the scientific method, biology, physics, chemistry, and sometimes other subjects such as geology, astronomy, human physiology, or human health.
General secretary for national defence (France) The General secretary for national defence (Secrétariat général de la Défense nationale) is an interministerial organism of the French government which includes the Ministries of the Interior, of Foreign Affairs and of Defence.
General securities principal exam The General Securities Principal Exam, commonly referred to as the Series 24 Exam, is administered by the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD) which qualifies a registered individual to supervise or manage branch activities such as corporate securities, REITs, variable contracts, and venture capital. The exam covers topics such as supervision of investment banking, trading, customer accounts, and the primary/secondary markets.
General store A general store is historically a retailer located in a small town or in a rural area with a broad selection of merchandise crammed into a relatively small space where people from the town and surrounding rural areas would come to purchase all their general goods, both in stock and special order from larger cities.
General strike A general strike is a strike action by a critical mass of the labour force in a city, region or country.While a general strike can be initiated based on political goals, economic goals, or both, it tends to gain its momentum from the ideological or class sympathies of the participants.
General strike/Summary A general strike is a strike action by a critical mass of the labour force in a city, region or country. It may be based on political and/or economic goals, and tends to gain its momentum from the ideological or class sympathies of the participants.
General Santander National Police Academy General Santander National Police Academy (or Escuela General Santander de la Policia Nacional in Spanish) is the main educational center for the Colombian National Police. the academy functions as an university for the formation of its force.
General Scalene General Scalene is a leader in the B'wa Kell, a group of goblins who feature in the second Artemis Fowl book, Artemis Fowl: The Arctic Incident. They do various works of illegal smuggling of various human merchandise.
General Secretary of the Communist Party of China The General Secretary of the Communist Party of China Central Committee () is the highest ranking official within the Communist Party of China and heads the Secretariat of the Communist Party of China. The General Secretary is the highest ranking member of the Politburo Standing Committee of the Communist Party of China.
General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union The General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (First Secretary in 1953-1966) was the title synonymous with leader of the Soviet Union after Vladimir Lenin's death in 1924. The full name of the office was General (or First) Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
General Security Directorate The General Security Directorate (Mudiriyat al-Amn al-Amma) is a domestic intelligence service of Iraq. It was announced by interim Prime Minister Iyad Allawi at a press conference in July 2004, in a climate of widespread violence by terrorist groups and the Iraqi insurgency.
General Service Corps The General Service Corps (GSC) is a corps of the British Army. Its main function is to act as a holding unit for specialists who have not been assigned to other units; these are primarily reservists and the GSC is usually only active in wartime.
General Service Medal The General Service Medal (GSM) was first introduced in 1918 as an Army and RAF equivalent to the Naval General Service Medal (NGSM). The medal is used in place of a specific campaign medal , for example if the campaign is not very large, clasps are added to the medal to denote the campaign.
General Service Medal (Rhodesia) The General Service Medal was Rhodesia's most widely-awarded military decoration, awarded to members of the armed forces and British South Africa Police for service on operations undertaken for the purpose of combating terrorists or enemy incursions into Rhodesia.
General Service Training School General Service Training School (GSTS) of the Royal New Zealand Air Force is the principal training facility for RNZAF recruits. Located at RNZAF Base Woodbourne, it takes recruits through a thirteen-week training program designed to produce airmen and airwomen for the RNZAF.
General Services Administration The General Services Administration (GSA) is an independent agency of the United States government, established in 1949 to help manage and support the basic functioning of federal agencies. The GSA supplies products and communications for U.
General Services Administration Board of Contract Appeals The General Services Administration Board of Contract Appeals is an Article I court that was established under the Contract Disputes Act of 1978, , as an independent tribunal to hear and decide contract disputes between government contractors and the General Services Administration (GSA) and other executive agencies of the United States.
General Schedule General Schedule (or GS) is the name used to describe a payscale utilized by the majority of white collar personnel in the civil service of the United States Government. (The term GS is sometimes mistakenly referred to as an abbreviation for "Government Service" or "Government Servant.
General Simon Fraser of Lovat General the Hon. Simon Fraser of Lovat, 19th MacShimidh (1726-1782), was a British General who raised a number of fighting forces, and served in the war against the French in Quebec, as well as the American rebellion.
General Social Care Council The General Social Care Council (GSCC) is a public body which has responsibility for registering and regulating Social Workers and Social Care Workers in England. Its responsibilities include setting and promoting high standards of social care, and ensuring that all workers in the Social Care sector adhere to high professional standards.
General Social Survey The General Social Survey (GSS) is a survey used to collect data on demographic characteristics and attitudes of residents of the United States. The survey is conducted face-to-face with an in-person interview by the National Opinion Research Center at the University of Chicago, and was conducted every year from 1972 to 1994 (except in 1979, 1981, and 1992).
General Spanky General Spanky is a 1936 motion picture produced by Hal Roach. A spin-off of Roach's popular Our Gang short subjects, the film stars George "Spanky" McFarland, Phillips Holmes, Rosina Lawrence, Billie "Buckwheat" Thomas, and Carl "Alfalfa" Switzer.
General Staff Academy (Soviet) The Voroshilov Military Academy of the USSR Army General Staff () was founded 1936 in Moscow by Leonid Govorov. It is named after Kliment Voroshilov, and is the senior Soviet and now Russian professional school for officers.
General Sundararajan Padmanabhan General Sundararajan Padmanabhan assumed charge of the Indian Army, as the 20th Chief of Army Staff, on 30 September 2000. Born in Trivandrum, Kerala on 05 December 1940, he is an alumnus of the prestigious Rashtriya Indian Military College (RIMC), Dehra Dun and the National Defence Academy (NDA), Khadakwasla in Pune.
General Sylvanus Thayer Birthplace The General Sylvanus Thayer Birthplace is a historic house located at 786 Washington Street, Braintree, Massachusetts. It is the birthplace of Sylvanus Thayer, "the Father of West Point", and now operated as a non-profit museum by the Braintree Historical Society.
General topology In mathematics, general topology or point-set topology is the branch of topology which studies properties of topological spaces and structures defined on them. It is distinct from other branches of topology in that the topological spaces may be very general, and do not have to be at all similar to manifolds.
General transcription factor General transcription factors (GTF's) are proteins which have been shown to be important in the transcription of class II genes to mRNA templates. Many of them are involved in the formation of a preinitiation complex, which, together with RNA polymerase II, bind to and read the single-stranded DNA gene template.
General Laws of Massachusetts Massachusetts General Law, also known as the General Laws of Massachusetts, is the collection of state laws of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Massachusetts is a state in the New England region of the United States of America.
General Learning Ability General Learning Ability is an Aptitude, commonly referred to as the "G" score, defined as the ability to "catch on" or understand instructions and underlying principles; ability to reason and make judgements. Closely related to doing well in school.
General Luna, Quezon The Municipality of General Luna (Filipino: Bayan ng Heneral Luna) is a fifth class municipality in the province of Quezon, Philippines. According to the 2000 census, it has a population of 21,068 people in 4,160 households.
General manager The term general manager is a descriptive term for certain executives in a business operation. It is also a formal title held by some business executives, although the duties of the general manager role vary by industry.
General manager (ice hockey) In the National Hockey League, the General Manager or GM of a team typically controls player transactions and bears the primary responsibility on behalf of the hockey club during contract discussions with players.
General medical services Despite many different contracting arrangements that have been and are being introduced for general medical service in the UK, General Practitioners (GPs) are, in principle, independent contractors with the government.
General Magic General Magic was a company co-founded by Bill Atkinson, Andy Hertzfeld and Marc Porat that developed new kind of handheld communications device they called a "personal intelligent communicator", which was a PDA precursor that stressed communications.
General Malice General Malice (born Clint Harley Ward) is a Minneapolis based raggacore artist and producer who is signed to US indie jungle labels Big Cat and N20 Records. He draws influence from Gangstarr, Kraftwerk, Slayer, Remarc, Ludacris, Ray Keith, DJ Shadow, Lee Perry, and Massive B.
General Maritime Corporation General Maritime Corporation operates crude oil tankers, mostly in the Atlantic Ocean and in the Caribbean, Mediterranean, Black, and North Seas. Founded in 1997 by current CEO Peter Georgiopoulos, as of 2004 the company is the second largest (based on cargo capacity) operator of mid-size tankers.
General McLane School District General McLane is the name of a school district located in Erie County, Pennsylvania. It comprises the townships of Franklin, McKean, and Washington; the boroughs of McKean and Edinboro are located in McKean and Washington townships, respectively.
General Medical Council The General Medical Council (the GMC) is the regulator of the medical profession in the United Kingdom. It licenses doctors to practice, and has the power to revoke the licence, or place restrictions, in cases of questions about a doctor's fitness to practice.
General Mediterranean Holdings The General Mediterranean Holdings (GenMed) is a financial holding company established in 1979 in Luxembourg City, in southern Luxembourg, through which Anglo-Iraqi billionaire Nadhmi Auchi control his financial empire. Nadhmi Auchi is "one of the most important intermediaries in the affairs of Middle Eastern countries.
General Mining Act of 1872 The General Mining Act of 1872 is a United States federal law which authorizes and governs prospecting and mining for economic minerals, such as gold and silver, on publicly owned lands. This law, approved on May 10th, 1872, codifies the informal system of acquiring and protecting mining claims on public land, formed by prospectors in California and Nevada from the late 1840s through the 1860s, such as during the California Gold Rush.
General MIDI General MIDI or GM is a specification for synthesizers which imposes several requirements beyond the more abstract MIDI standard. While MIDI itself provides a protocol which ensures that different instruments can interoperate at a fundamental level (e.
General Mobile Radio Service The General Mobile Radio Service (GMRS) is a land-mobile UHF radio service in the United States available for short-distance two-way communications to facilitate the activities of an adult individual who possesses a valid GMRS license, as well his or her immediate family members, including a spouse, children, parents, grandparents, aunts, uncles, nephews, nieces, and in-laws (47 CFR 95.179).
General Motors Centre The General Motors Centre (GMC) is a 5,500-seat multi-purpose arena located in Oshawa, Ontario. It is the home of the Oshawa Generals of the Ontario Hockey League, and is situated at the corner of Athol and Mary Streets in the city's downtown.
General Motors Companion Make Program General Motors pioneered the idea that consumers would aspire to buy up an automotive product ladder if a company met certain price points. As General Motors entered the 1920s, the product ladder started with the price leading Chevrolet marque, and then progressed upward in price, power and appointments to Oakland, Oldsmobile, Buick and ultimately to the luxury Cadillac marque.
General Motors EV1 The EV1 was the first purpose-built battery electric vehicle produced by General Motors (GM) in the United States and, at the time, was the only vehicle in the history of the company to bear the "General Motors" badge.
General Motors Firebird The General Motors Firebird is a series of three concept cars designed by Harley Earl, and built by General Motors for the 1953, 1956 and 1959 Motorama auto shows. They were very much inspired by innovations in fighter aircraft design at the time.
General Motors Place General Motors Place, sponsored by the General Motors Canada, is an indoor arena at 800 Griffiths Way in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Completed in 1995 at a cost of C$160 million in private financing, the arena is home to the Vancouver Canucks of the NHL, and was formerly home to the Vancouver Ravens of the NLL and the Vancouver Grizzlies of the NBA.
General Motors Technical Center The GM Technical Center is a General Motors facility in Warren, Michigan. The acclaimed campus is home to 16,000 GM engineers and technicians and has been the center of the company's engineering effort for 50 years.
General Motors Theatre General Motors Theatre (also known as CBC Theatre and General Motors Presents) was a Canadian television anthology series, which ran on the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation under its various titles from 1953 until 1961. First transmitted under the sponsored title on October 5 1954, a new 60-minute drama would be presented each week.
General Motors Ultralite The General Motors Ultralite was a 1992 low emission vehicle concept car intended to demonstrate the benefits of advanced materials and low fuel consumption. The carbon fiber shell was fabricated by Scaled Composites and it amounted to only 420 pounds.
General nondiscrimination The 1986 Tax Reform Act introduced the General Nondiscrimination rules which applied to qualified pension plans and 403(b) plans that for private sector employers. It did not allow such pension plans to discriminate in favor of highly compensated employees.
General number field sieve In mathematics, the general number field sieve (GNFS) is the most efficient algorithm known for factoring integers larger than 100 digits. Heuristically, its complexity for factoring an integer n is of the form
General National Archive (Colombia) The General National Archive (Spanish: Archivo General de la NaciĂłn) is charged by the government of Colombia with "conserving the historical legacy, as well as recovering and circulating the documentary heritage of the country." It was created in 1989 by Law 80.
General National Archive (Mexico) The General National Archive (Spanish: Archivo General de la NaciĂłn) is charged by the Mexican state to "be the governing body of the national archives and the central consultative entity of the Federal Executive." The writer Edmundo O'Gorman was its general director from 1938 until 1952.
General National Vocational Qualification A General National Vocational Qualification, or GNVQ, is a certificate of vocational education in the United Kingdom. These qualifications are related to occupational areas in general, rather than any specific job.
General obligation bond A general obligation bond is a common type of municipal bond in the United States that is secured by a state or local government's pledge to use legally available resources, including tax revenues, to repay bond holders.
General of the Armies General of the Armies of the United States is the highest possible land-based rank in the United States military hierarchy, equal to a Generalissimo. The rank of General of the Armies has only been bestowed twice in the history of the United States Army and only once in an active duty capacity.
General of the Army General of the Army is a military rank used in some countries of the world to denote a senior military leader, usually a General in command of a nation's Army. Less specifically, a General of the Army may also be the title given to a General who commands an Army in the field.
General of the Army (Russia) General of the Army (Russian: генерал армии, general armii) is the second highest military rank in the Russian Federation, inferior only to a Marshal. It is a direct counterpart of the Soviet rank, General of the Army (USSR).
General of the Army (USSR) General of the Army (Russian: генерал армии, general armii) was a rank of the Soviet Union which was first established in June 1940 as a high rank for Red Army generals, inferior only to the Marshal of the Soviet Union. In the following 51 years the USSR created 133 General of the Army, 32 of whom were later promoted to the rank of Marshal.
General order In militaries, a general order is a published directive, originated by a commander, and binding upon all personnel under his command, the purpose of which is to enforce a policy or procedure unique to his unit's situation which is not otherwise addressed in applicable service regulations, military law, or public law. A general order has the force of law; it is an offense punishable by court martial or lesser military court to disobey one.
General Obligado Department The General Obligado Department (in Spanish, Departamento General Obligado) is an administrative subdivision (departamento) of the province of Santa Fe, Argentina. It is located in the northeast of the province.
General Officer Commanding General Officer Commanding (GOC) is the usual title given in the armies of Commonwealth (and some other) nations to a general officer who holds a command appointment. Thus, a general might be the GOC II Corps or GOC 7th Armoured Division.
General Operations Forces General Operations Forces (Malay:Pasukan Gerakan Am) is a paramilitary unit of the Royal Malaysian Police. This unit created in 1948 during in Malayan Emergency when British Military Administration mobilisationed the General Duty police officer to relations with military in defeated the communist insugencies and it was then called Jungle Squad (Malay:Pasukan Polis Hutan, PPH).
General Optical Council The General Optical Council (GOC) is an organisation in the United Kingdom that regulates opticians and optometrists. Their main aims are, "to protect the public and promote high standards of professional conduct and education amongst opticians".
General Order â„– 1 General Order â„– 1 was General Douglas MacArthur's first order to the forces of the Empire of Japan following the Japanese surrender. It instructed Japanese forces to surrender to designated Allied commanders, reveal all current military deployments, and preserve military equipment for later disarmament.
General Orders for Sentries General Orders for Sentries is the official title of a set of rules governing guard duty in the United States military. While any guard posting has rules that may go without saying ("Stay awake", for instance), these orders are carefully detailed and particularly stressed in the United States Navy, United States Marine Corps, and United States Coast Guard.
General Otmin General Otmin is a minotaur in the 2005 movie The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe. Otmin does not appear in the book The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe as a named character, though there are several minotaurs mentioned in passing.
General position In geometry, general position for a set of points, or other configuration, means the general case situation, as opposed to some more special or coincidental cases that are possible. Its precise meaning differs in different settings.
General practitioner A general practitioner (GP), family physician or family practitioner (FP) is a physician/medical doctor who provides primary care. A GP/FP treats acute and chronic illnesses, provides preventive care and health education for all ages and both sexes.
General protection fault A general protection fault (GPF) in the Intel x86 architecture is a fault indicating that a currently executing program has in some way violated the rules of the hardware on which it is running. These rules are meant to protect programs from extremely obvious and potentially disastrous runtime errors.
General purpose datatypes General Purpose Datatypes (GPD) are a collection of datatypes defined independently of any particular programming language or implementation. These datatypes can be used to describe interfaces to existing libraries without having to specify the language (such as Fortran or C).
General purpose machine gun A general purpose machine-gun (GPMG) in concept is a multi-purpose weapon, a machine-gun intended to fill the role of either a light machine-gun or medium machine-gun, while at the same time being man-portable. However, performance in either role may be inferior to a weapon specifically designed for that role.
General purpose technology General purpose technologies (GPTs) describe great leaps of innovation that can affect an entire economy (usually at a national or global level). Unlike traditional technologies, which economists view as a smooth advancement, GPTs are drastic advancements that redefine society.
General Packet Radio Service General Packet Radio Service (GPRS) is a mobile data service available to users of GSM and IS-136 mobile phones. GPRS data transfer is typically charged per megabyte of transferred data, while data communication via traditional circuit switching is billed per minute of connection time, independently of if the user actually has transferred data or been in an idle state.
General Patent Corporation International General Patent Corporation International (also known as GPCI) is an Intellectual Property (IP) licensing and enforcement companyGeneral Patent Corporation International — main website. headquartered in Suffern, New YorkGeneral Patent Corporation — GPC website.
General Paz Juniors General Paz Juniors are an Argentine Football club, their home town is CĂłrdoba, in CĂłrdoba Province, Argentina. They currently play in Zone C of the regionalised 4th level of Argentinian football Torneo Argentino B.
General People's Congress of Libya The General People's Congress (Mu'tammar al-sha'ab al 'âmm) (Arabic: مؤتمر الشعب العام الليبي) consists out of circa 2700 representatives of the Basis People's Congresses. The GPC is the legislative forum that interacts with the General People's Committee, whose members are secretaries of Libyan ministries.
General Pershing Zephyr The General Pershing Zephyr was the ninth of the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad's Zephyr streamliners, and the last built as an integrated streamliner rather than a train hauled by an EMD E-unit diesel locomotive. It was constructed in 1939 with bodywork and passenger cars by Budd Company and diesel engine, electric transmission, power truck, and other locomotive equipment by General Motors' Electro-Motive Division.
General Physical Preparedness General Physical Preparedness, also known as GPP, lays the groundwork for later Specific Physical Preparedness, or SPP. In the GPP phase, athletes work on general conditioning to improve strength, speed, endurance, flexibility, structure and skill.
General Post Office (Dublin) The General Post Office (GPO) (Irish: Ard-Oifig an Phoist) in Dublin was at first held in a small building on the site of the Commercial Buildings, and was afterwards removed to a larger house opposite the bank on College Green (since converted into the Royal Arcade;) and on January 6, 1818, the new post-office in Sackville Street, later O'Connell Street, was opened for business. It is now the headquarters of An Post, the postal service of the Republic of Ireland.
General Post Office (United Kingdom) The British General Post Office (GPO) was officially established in 1660 by Charles II and it eventually grew to combine the functions of both the state postal system and telecommunications carrier. In 1969 it was abolished and the assets transferred to the newly-created Post Office Corporation, changing it from a Department of State to a Statutory Corporation which was in turn split into separate Post Office and British Telecommunications Corporations in 1981.
General Post Office, Kolkata The General Post Office, Kolkata is the central post office of the city of Kolkata, India and the chief post office of West Bengal. The post-office handles most of the city's inbound and outbound mail and parcels.
General Practice Residency A General Practice Residency (GPR) is a one or two year hospital based postgraduate training program for dentists seeking additional education. In the hospital setting, residents are exposed to a wide range of medically compromised patients needing dental care.
General Precision Equipment The General Precision Equipment Corporation was a major manufacturing company involved in the defense and space industries as well educational products and control devices for consumer goods. General Precision, Inc.
General Principles of the Civil Law of the People's Republic of China The General Principles of the Civil Law of the People's Republic of China (Chinese: ä¸ĺŤŽäşşć°‘共和国民法通ĺ™) is a law in the PRC promulgated in 1986 and coming into force in 1987. It is intended to create a consistent framework for civil law interpretation in the People's Republic of China, and is heavily influenced by the German Civil Code.
General Problem Solver General Problem Solver (GPS) was a computer program created in 1957 by Herbert Simon and Allen Newell to build a universal problem solver machine. Any formalized symbolic problem can be solved, in principle, by GPS.
General Products (Larry Niven) General Products is a fictional alien company which produces various spacecraft components, run by the Pierson's Puppeteers. It is used repeatedly by science fiction author Larry Niven in his stories that take place in his Known Space universe.
General Public The band General Public formed after the 1983 break-up of The Beat (known as The English Beat in North America). Ex-Beat vocalists Dave Wakeling and Ranking Roger joined up with keyboardist Mickey Billingham (Dexy's Midnight Runners), bassist Horace Panter (The Specials) and drummer Stoker (Dexy's Midnight Runners/The Bureau) to form the new band.
General Pulaski Memorial Day General Pulaski Memorial Day is a United States holiday in honor of General Kazimierz Pułaski, a Polish hero of the American Revolution. This holiday is held every year on October 11 by Presidential Proclamation, to commemorate his death at the Siege of Savannah on October 11, 1779 and to honor the heritage of Polish Americans.
General Pulaski's Day General Pulaski's Day is recognized by the state of Kentucky "in commemoration of the death of revolutionary General Casimir Pulaski. General Pulaski's Day is observed on October 11 of every year in Kentucky.
General radiotelephone operator license The General Radiotelephone Operator License, or GROL, is a commercial license, as opposed to an amateur radio certificate. It allows the holder to operate, maintain or install certain classes of United States licensed radio and television transmitters under authority of the Federal Communications Commision.
General relativity General relativity (GR) is the geometrical theory of gravitation published by Albert Einstein in 1915/16. It unifies special relativity and Sir Isaac Newton's law of universal gravitation with the insight that gravitation is not due to a force but rather is a manifestation of curved space and time, with this curvature being produced by the mass-energy and momentum content of the space-time.
General revelation General revelation is a theological term which refers to a universal aspect of God, his knowledge and of spiritual matters, discovered through natural means, such as observation of nature (the physical universe), philosophy and reasoning, human conscience or providence or providential history. Theologians use the term to describe knowledge of God which is plainly available to all mankind.
General Register Office The General Register Office (GRO) is that part of the government of the United Kingdom that deals with the civil registration of births, marriages, Civil Partnerships and deaths in England and Wales. It was founded in 1836, created by an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom (6 & 7 Will.
General Register Office for Scotland The General Register Office for Scotland is a non-ministerial department of the Scottish Executive that administers the registration of births, deaths, marriages, divorces and adoptions in Scotland. It is also responsible for the statutes relating to the formalities of marriage and conduct of civil marriage in Scotland.
General Retailers and Traders Union General Retailers and Traders Union (GRTU), or Association of General Retailers and Traders, is an association of small- and medium-sized businesses in Malta. It has over 7,000 members coming from 12,000 different business outlets.
General Revision Act The General Revision Act of 1891 provides for the repeal of the Timber Culture and Preemption Acts and authorizes the President, under the Forest Reserve Act, to create forest preserves "wholly or in part covered with timber or undergrowth, whether of commercial value or not....
General Rigarn Wild Beast General Rigarn (Moujuu Shougun Raigaan 猛獣将軍ă©ă‚¤ă‚¬ăĽăł)was a fictional character, a supervillain and warrior from the anime and manga series Great Mazinger. He was commander of the Mammalian Battle Beasts, one of the Seven Armies of the Mikene Empire.
General science General science is the name of a class usually taught in United States high schools and Junior High schools. It provides a brief overview of the scientific method, biology, physics, chemistry, and sometimes other subjects such as geology, astronomy, human physiology, or human health.
General secretary for national defence (France) The General secretary for national defence (Secrétariat général de la Défense nationale) is an interministerial organism of the French government which includes the Ministries of the Interior, of Foreign Affairs and of Defence.
General securities principal exam The General Securities Principal Exam, commonly referred to as the Series 24 Exam, is administered by the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD) which qualifies a registered individual to supervise or manage branch activities such as corporate securities, REITs, variable contracts, and venture capital. The exam covers topics such as supervision of investment banking, trading, customer accounts, and the primary/secondary markets.
General store A general store is historically a retailer located in a small town or in a rural area with a broad selection of merchandise crammed into a relatively small space where people from the town and surrounding rural areas would come to purchase all their general goods, both in stock and special order from larger cities.
General strike A general strike is a strike action by a critical mass of the labour force in a city, region or country.While a general strike can be initiated based on political goals, economic goals, or both, it tends to gain its momentum from the ideological or class sympathies of the participants.
General strike/Summary A general strike is a strike action by a critical mass of the labour force in a city, region or country. It may be based on political and/or economic goals, and tends to gain its momentum from the ideological or class sympathies of the participants.
General Santander National Police Academy General Santander National Police Academy (or Escuela General Santander de la Policia Nacional in Spanish) is the main educational center for the Colombian National Police. the academy functions as an university for the formation of its force.
General Scalene General Scalene is a leader in the B'wa Kell, a group of goblins who feature in the second Artemis Fowl book, Artemis Fowl: The Arctic Incident. They do various works of illegal smuggling of various human merchandise.
General Secretary of the Communist Party of China The General Secretary of the Communist Party of China Central Committee () is the highest ranking official within the Communist Party of China and heads the Secretariat of the Communist Party of China. The General Secretary is the highest ranking member of the Politburo Standing Committee of the Communist Party of China.
General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union The General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (First Secretary in 1953-1966) was the title synonymous with leader of the Soviet Union after Vladimir Lenin's death in 1924. The full name of the office was General (or First) Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
General Security Directorate The General Security Directorate (Mudiriyat al-Amn al-Amma) is a domestic intelligence service of Iraq. It was announced by interim Prime Minister Iyad Allawi at a press conference in July 2004, in a climate of widespread violence by terrorist groups and the Iraqi insurgency.
General Service Corps The General Service Corps (GSC) is a corps of the British Army. Its main function is to act as a holding unit for specialists who have not been assigned to other units; these are primarily reservists and the GSC is usually only active in wartime.
General Service Medal The General Service Medal (GSM) was first introduced in 1918 as an Army and RAF equivalent to the Naval General Service Medal (NGSM). The medal is used in place of a specific campaign medal , for example if the campaign is not very large, clasps are added to the medal to denote the campaign.
General Service Medal (Rhodesia) The General Service Medal was Rhodesia's most widely-awarded military decoration, awarded to members of the armed forces and British South Africa Police for service on operations undertaken for the purpose of combating terrorists or enemy incursions into Rhodesia.
General Service Training School General Service Training School (GSTS) of the Royal New Zealand Air Force is the principal training facility for RNZAF recruits. Located at RNZAF Base Woodbourne, it takes recruits through a thirteen-week training program designed to produce airmen and airwomen for the RNZAF.
General Services Administration The General Services Administration (GSA) is an independent agency of the United States government, established in 1949 to help manage and support the basic functioning of federal agencies. The GSA supplies products and communications for U.
General Services Administration Board of Contract Appeals The General Services Administration Board of Contract Appeals is an Article I court that was established under the Contract Disputes Act of 1978, , as an independent tribunal to hear and decide contract disputes between government contractors and the General Services Administration (GSA) and other executive agencies of the United States.
General Schedule General Schedule (or GS) is the name used to describe a payscale utilized by the majority of white collar personnel in the civil service of the United States Government. (The term GS is sometimes mistakenly referred to as an abbreviation for "Government Service" or "Government Servant.
General Simon Fraser of Lovat General the Hon. Simon Fraser of Lovat, 19th MacShimidh (1726-1782), was a British General who raised a number of fighting forces, and served in the war against the French in Quebec, as well as the American rebellion.
General Social Care Council The General Social Care Council (GSCC) is a public body which has responsibility for registering and regulating Social Workers and Social Care Workers in England. Its responsibilities include setting and promoting high standards of social care, and ensuring that all workers in the Social Care sector adhere to high professional standards.
General Social Survey The General Social Survey (GSS) is a survey used to collect data on demographic characteristics and attitudes of residents of the United States. The survey is conducted face-to-face with an in-person interview by the National Opinion Research Center at the University of Chicago, and was conducted every year from 1972 to 1994 (except in 1979, 1981, and 1992).
General Spanky General Spanky is a 1936 motion picture produced by Hal Roach. A spin-off of Roach's popular Our Gang short subjects, the film stars George "Spanky" McFarland, Phillips Holmes, Rosina Lawrence, Billie "Buckwheat" Thomas, and Carl "Alfalfa" Switzer.
General Staff Academy (Soviet) The Voroshilov Military Academy of the USSR Army General Staff () was founded 1936 in Moscow by Leonid Govorov. It is named after Kliment Voroshilov, and is the senior Soviet and now Russian professional school for officers.
General Sundararajan Padmanabhan General Sundararajan Padmanabhan assumed charge of the Indian Army, as the 20th Chief of Army Staff, on 30 September 2000. Born in Trivandrum, Kerala on 05 December 1940, he is an alumnus of the prestigious Rashtriya Indian Military College (RIMC), Dehra Dun and the National Defence Academy (NDA), Khadakwasla in Pune.
General Sylvanus Thayer Birthplace The General Sylvanus Thayer Birthplace is a historic house located at 786 Washington Street, Braintree, Massachusetts. It is the birthplace of Sylvanus Thayer, "the Father of West Point", and now operated as a non-profit museum by the Braintree Historical Society.
General topology In mathematics, general topology or point-set topology is the branch of topology which studies properties of topological spaces and structures defined on them. It is distinct from other branches of topology in that the topological spaces may be very general, and do not have to be at all similar to manifolds.
General transcription factor General transcription factors (GTF's) are proteins which have been shown to be important in the transcription of class II genes to mRNA templates. Many of them are involved in the formation of a preinitiation complex, which, together with RNA polymerase II, bind to and read the single-stranded DNA gene template.
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