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GM GMT platform GMT is the name used for all of General Motors' SUV/truck automobile platforms. With the introduction of more and more crossover vehicles labeled with the "GMT" nomenclature, it can be argued that only vehicles under the 300, 400, 500, 600, 800 and 900 series are "true" GM trucks.
GM High Value engine The High Value engine family from General Motors is a group of Cam in Block or "Pushrod" V6 engines. They use the same 60° vee bank as the 60° V6 family they are based on, but the new 99 mm bore required expanding the bore spacing by 1.
GM L platform The General Motors L platform (commonly called the L-body) is a front-wheel drive compact car automobile platform that was produced from 1987 through 1996. The L-body was essentially identical to the N-body platform used by other GM divisions with the same 103.
GM LS engine The LS is Generation III and Generation IV, the latest evolution of General Motors' line of small-block V8 engines. The LS series was a clean sheet design, drawing on the heritage of the classic small-block, but is all-aluminum and has 6-bolt main bearing caps.
GM LT engine The second-generation Chevrolet Small-Block engine, which uses the LT prefix, was introduced in 1992. The distinguishing feature of this engine family was the use of reverse-flow cooling, which enabled higher compression ratios than previous versions of the small-block Chevy.
GM M platform The GM M platform was the designation used by General Motors to refer to its line of subcompact captive import cars that first appeared in showrooms in 1985. The platform was originally designed by Suzuki for their 1985 Swift, and adopted by Chevrolet with the introduction of the Sprint.
GM Magic GM Magic, known otherwise as DM Magic, is a humorous catch-all used to explain inconsistencies and otherwise inexplicable events in Role Playing Games. Also commonly used is the phrase "a wizard did it".
GM New Look (Fishbowl) Bus The GMC New Look Transit Coach series (nicknamed "Fishbowl" for its six-piece rounded windshield) was introduced in 1959. In production for over 25 years, it became the iconic North American transit bus.
GM Performance Division GM Performance Division is a division within General Motors (GM) that is responsible for developing performance vehicles for the various brands of GM. Its creations include the SS vehicles from Chevrolet, the V-series from Cadillac, the GXP series from Pontiac, and the Red Line series from Saturn.
GM Premium V engine The Premium V family of automobile engines is General Motors' modern 90° v engine architecture. The family is most associated with Cadillac's Northstar V8, but the family has also seen use at Oldsmobile (as the Aurora L47 V8 and "Shortstar" LX5).
GM Quad-4 engine The Quad 4 (called Twin Cam after 1995) was a DOHC straight-4 automobile engine produced by General Motors' Oldsmobile division in the 1990s. It was a modern engine for the time, but was criticized for roughness.
GM TDH-4801 & TDM-4801 The GM TDH-4801 & TDM-4801 were a special series of GM "old-look" transit buses that were produced between 1953 and 1958 and which were designed to maintain a maximum rear axle weight load of no more than 16,500 pounds. The reason for this was due to a requirement in California at the time that buses more than 35 feet in length or 96 inches in width could only be operated under special authorization from the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC), and the CPUC had denied authorization for the TDH-5105 (a 40-foot long, 102-inch wide bus) partially due to its weight.
GM Theta platform Theta is General Motors' mid-size crossover SUV and compact SUV automobile platform. The architecture debuted in 2002 with the Saturn VUE (Theta, Compact SUV) and was later used for the Chevrolet Equinox (Extended Theta, Mid-Size Crossover SUV).
GM W platform The W-body is an automobile platform from General Motors which underpins mid-size cars with front-wheel drive. The platform debuted as the GM10 program in 1988 with the Pontiac Grand Prix, the Buick Regal, and the Oldsmobile Cutlass Supreme coupés.
GM War 1697 The GM War of 1697 was based around some Frankenstein peas attacking their grower. They had been genetically modified to be taller, and grow stronger, but in growing stronger, their brains grew larger and began to wonder why they allowed themselves to be eaten.
GM Zeta platform Zeta is the original name for General Motors' full-size rear-wheel drive automobile platform. The architecture was engineered by Holden of Australia and is now referred to as the "Global RWD Architecture".
GM-1 GM-1 (Göring Mischung 1) was a system for injecting nitrous oxide into aircraft engines that was used by the Luftwaffe in World War II to boost the high-altitude performance of their aircraft. A system for low-altitude boost known as MW 50 was also used, although GM-1 and MW 50 were rarely used on the same engine.
GM1 GM1 (monosialotetrahexosylganglioside) the "prototype" ganglioside, is a member of the ganglio series of gangliosides which contain one sialic acid residue. GM1 has important physiological properties and impacts neuronal plasticity and repair mechanisms, and the release of neurotrophins in the brain.
GM2 General MIDI Level 2 or GM2 is a specification for synthesizers which defines several requirements beyond the more abstract MIDI standard and is based on General MIDI and GS extensions. It was adopted in 1999, by the MIDI Manufacturers Association (MMA).
GM2-gangliosidosis, AB variant GM2-gangliosidosis, AB variant is a rare inherited disorder that causes progressive destruction of nerve cells in the brain and spinal cord. It has a similar pathology to Sandhoff disease and Tay-Sachs disease.
GM4200 platform General Motors introduced the front-wheel drive GM4200 platform in 1983 with the introductions of two subcompacts, the Opel Corsa A and the Vauxhall Nova. The platform was also used by Holden, Chevrolet's Latin American branch, and Buick of China.
GMail Drive GMail Drive is a free namespace extension ("add-on") for Microsoft Windows. It allows a user to access a virtual drive stored in a Gmail e-mail account by causing the contents of the Gmail account to appear as a new network share on the user's workstation.
GMA Canada GMA Canada is the Gospel Music Association of Canada (formerly known as CGMA). Created in 1974, the organization is a not for profit organization whose mission is to promote the growth and ministry of Christian music arts in Canada.
GMA Canada Lifetime Achievement Award The GMA Canada Lifetime Achievement Award is handed out annually by GMA Canada (Gospel Music Association of Canada). The annual award recognizes the achievements of artists and industry experts who have impacted the Canadian Christian music scene.
GMA Dove Awards The Gospel Music Association Dove Awards (shortened to GMA Dove Awards), known as the GMA Music Awards in 2006 and a few years before but better known even then as the Dove Awards, were created in 1969 by the Gospel Music Association to honor the outstanding achievements in contemporary Christian and gospel music. They are held annually in Nashville, Tennessee.
GMA Flash Report GMA Flash Report is a 10 minute hourly newscast of GMA Network in the Philippines, replacing GMA News Live. Every weekends, between 11:00 PM and 12:00 AM, a thirty minute special edition of the newscast is aired with Mariz Umali as news anchor.
GMA Network Subsidiaries GMA Network owns several media-related businesses, among them RGMA, a nationwide network of radio stations; Citynet Incorporated, which will start co-producing programs for Zoe Broadcasting; GMA Films, the network's film production arm; GMA Pinoy TV, its international marketing arm; Alta Productions, which produces programs for outside the network's broadcast, dubbing for foreign language series, and once produced the Digital LG Challenge; GMA New Media Inc, a multimedia company involved in pre- and post-production; Infiniti Music, its music recording arm is now known as GMA Records and the GMA Kapuso Foundation, the network's foundation reaches out to underprivileged children, their families, and other communities in need. Scenarios, Inc.
GMA Records GMA Records is the recording arm of GMA Network in the Philippines. During its first year, GMA Records instantly became the fastest-growing and bankable recording company in the country with several album releases, gold record awards, hit songs, an MTV Pilipinas Award, fresh discoveries, outstanding sales and great music reviews.
GMAC Bowl The GMAC Bowl is a post-season NCAA-sanctioned Division I-A college football bowl game that has been played annually at Ladd Peebles Stadium in Mobile, Alabama since 1999. It pits a Conference USA team (home team) against a team from either the Mid-American Conference or the Western Athletic Conference.
GMAC Real Estate GMAC Real Estate is real estate franchise company in the United States, with 1300 locations in North America, and more than 22,000 real estate agents. The company is a division of GMAC Home Services, part of the larger General Motors Acceptance Corporation, which provides automotive financing for General Motors, as well as other financial products worldwide.
GMB Union The GMB is a general trade union in the United Kingdom, and has more than 600,000 members. The GMB originates from a merger of the National Amalgamated Union of Labour, National Union of General Workers and the Municipal Employers Association in 1924, named the National Union of General and Municipal Workers.
GMC (General Motors division) GMC, formerly known as GMC Truck, is a brand name used on trucks, vans, and SUVs marketed in North America and the Middle East by General Motors. GM leads all other automakers in Strategic Vision's Total Quality Index (TQI).
GMC B-Series The GMC B-Series was a class 7, medium duty chassis-cowl produced by General Motors (GM) for the school bus industry. While GM was responsible for only the design, production, and engineering of the truck chassis itself, a variety of body manufacturers were responsible to design, fabricate, and install school bus bodies upon it.
GMC Caballero The GMC Caballero was GMC's version of the Chevrolet El Camino car/truck hybrid. It was called Sprint from 1971-77, and renamed Caballero when the line was redesigned along with the rest of the GM A platform line in 1978 (which became the GM G platform in 1982).
GMD GMD1 The GMD GMD1 was a diesel locomotive produced by General Motors Diesel (GMD), the Canadian subsidiary of General Motors Electro-Motive Division, between August 1958 and April 1960. This switcher locomotive was powered by a 12-cylinder EMD 567C diesel engine, capable of producing 1,200 horsepower.
GMD Mueller GMD Mueller was a Swiss aerial lift manufacturing firm. Founded by Gerhard Mueller, who is credited with the invention of the modern chairlift, in the late 1940s, it was one of the most prolific and respected aerial lift manufacurers in skiing history.
GMES Global Monitoring for Environment and Security (GMES) is a joint initiative of the European Commission and European Space Agency, adopted by EU Heads of States in Gothenburg Summit in 2001, and aimed at achieving by 2008 an autonomous and operational capability in the exploitation of geo-spatial information services.
GMCH Chandigarh Government Medical College and Hospital is a teaching hospital located in Sector 32, Chandigarh, India. The hospital was started in response to increasing pressures on the already existing PGIMER and General Hospital, Sector 16 due to high patient influx.
GML Application Schemas Geography Markup Language provides the basis for domain- or community-specific "Application Schemas", which in turn support data interoperability within a community of interest. Application schemas are normally designed using ISO 19103 conformant UML, and then the GML Application created by following the rules given in Annex E of ISO DIS 19136.
GMLAN GMLAN is an application- and transport-layer protocol using CAN for lower layer services. Transport-layer services include the transmission of multi-CAN-frame messages based on the ISO 15765-2 multi-frame messaging scheme.
GMM Grammy GMM Grammy Public Company Limited (Thai: จีเอ็มเอ็ม แกรมมี่, or G"MM' Grammy) is the largest record label and entertainment company in Thailand. It claims a 70% share of the Thai entertainment industry.
GMPI Generalized Music Plug-in Interface (GMPI) is a working group of the MIDI Manufacturers Association set up to consider the feasibility of a standard interface for audio and MIDI software plug-ins, to complement or supersede existing vendor-specific interfaces such as VST.
GMR (magazine) GMR was a monthly magazine on video games that was published out by Ziff-Davis—the publisher of such magazines as PC Magazine, Electronic Gaming Monthly, and Computer Gaming World (now Games for Windows: The Official Magazine). GMR was launched in February 2003, being sold in only the Electronics Boutique (EB) chain of video game stores.
GMROII Gross Margin Return on Inventory Investment (GMROII) is a ratio in microeconomics that describes a seller's income on every dollar spent on inventory. It is one way to determine how valuable the seller's inventory is, and describes the relationship between total sales, total profit from total sales, and the amount of resources invested in the inventory sold.
GMT Games GMT Games, probably the most prolific of the wargame companies in the 1990s and 2000s, was founded in 1990. Majority owners Gene and Mary Billingsley built a management and creative team over the years that now includes Tony Curtis, Rodger MacGowan, Mark Simonitch, and Andy Lewis.
GMT360 The GMT 360 debuted in 2002 with the Chevrolet TrailBlazer, GMC Envoy, and Oldsmobile Bravada, as the next generation S/T mid-size SUV's. While it replaced the GMT 330, it shared nothing with the older platform.
GMT900 The GMT900 debuted at the 2006 North American International Auto Show, as the next generation full-size pickups and SUVs, and replacements for the GMT800 vehicles. The first GMT900 vehicle is the next-generation Chevy Tahoe.
GMWatch GM WATCH is a website developed by the Norfolk Genetic Information Network (NGIN - pronounced 'engine') in 1998 to report on the concerns about genetic engineering. The organization name appears in web searches as GMWatch.
GMZ GMZ (ГМЗ) or Gorkiy Mototsikletniy Zavod (Горкий Мотоциклетний Завод) was a motorcycle manufacturer, based in Gorkiy (nowadays Nizhniy Novogorod). It commenced operations in 1941 with the transfer of plant and equipment from KhMZ (ХМЗ) and LMZ (ЛМЗ).
Gnaeus Cornelius Cinna Magnus Gnaeus Cornelius Cinna Magnus was the great-grandson of the famous 1st century BC general and imperator Pompey. Cinna was involved in a conspiracy against emperor Augustus, alongside Aemilia Lepida, the granddaughter of the triumvir Marcus Aemilius Lepidus.
Gnaeus Cornelius Lentulus Clodianus Gnaeus Cornelius Lentulus Clodianus was one of two Consuls of the Roman Republic in 72 BCE along with Lucius Gellius Publicola. He is noted for being one of the consular generals who lead Roman legions against the slave armies of Spartacus in the Third Servile War.
Gnaeus Cornelius Merula Gnaeus Cornelius Merula was appointed legatus by the senate in 162—161 BC, to adjust the disputes between the brothers Ptolemy Philometor and Physcon respecting the sovereignty of Cyprus. Merula accompanied Physcon to Crete and Asia Minor, and, after an ineffectual embassy to the elder brother at Alexandria, he induced the senate, on his return to Rome, to cancel the existing treaty with Philometor.
Gnaeus Domitius Ahenobarbus (consul 32) Gnaeus Domitius Ahenobarbus (11 December, 17 BC - January 40 AD) was a close relative to the Roman Emperors of the Julio-Claudian dynasty. Domitius was the only son to Antonia Major (niece of Roman Emperor Caesar Augustus and daughter to Augustus' sister Octavia Minor to Mark Antony) and Lucius Domitius Ahenobarbus (consul 16 BC).
Gnaeus Domitius Ahenobarbus (consul 96 BCE) Gnaeus Domitius Ahenobarbus, son of the same named consul of 122 BC, tribune of the people 104 BC, brought forward a law (lex Domitia de Sacerdotiis) by which the priests of the superior colleges were to be elected by the people in the comitia tributa (seventeen of the tribes voting) instead of by co-optation; the law was repealed by Sulla, revived by Julius Caesar and (perhaps) again repealed by Mark Antony, the triumvir (Cicero, De Lege Agraria, ii. 7; Suetonius, Nero, 2).
Gnaeus Flavius Gnaeus Flavius, secretary of Appius, was the first person to publish an account of legal procedures ("actions in law" or legis actiones) something that had not been readily accessible to plebeians before. As a result, he was elected aedile (the two magistrates responsible for the maintenance of public buildings, purchase of grain, and regulation of festivals), even though he was the son of a freedman.
Gnaeus Julius Agricola Gnaeus Julius Agricola (July 13 40 - August 23, 93) was a Roman general responsible for much of the Roman conquest of Britain. His biography, the De vita et moribus Iulii Agricolae, was the first published work of his son-in-law, the historian Tacitus, and is the source for most of what is known about him.
Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus (character of Rome) Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus is a historical figure who features as a character in the HBO/BBC2 original television series Rome, played by Kenneth Cranham. He is depicted as a legendary general, past the days of his prime, who tries to recapture the glories of his youth as much as to do what is right for the Republic.
Gnaphalium Gnaphalium, commonly called Cudweed, is a genus of plants belonging to the family Asteraceae. There are about 120 members of the genus mostly found in temperate regions although some are found on tropical mountains or in the sub-tropical regions of the world.
Gnarkill Gnarkill is a band that comprises CKY band member Jess Margera on drums, as well as CKY Crew members Brandon DiCamillo as the lead singer and Bam Margera on keyboards, with Rich Vose on the guitar, and Matt Cole on the mixer. Gnarkill's music has been featured in the CKY4 and the band was represented by DiCamillo and the members of CKY in Bam Margera's film Haggard.
Gnarled enamel Gnarled enamel is a description of enamel seen in histologic sections of a tooth underneath a cusp. The appearance of enamel appears different and very complex under the cusp, but this is not due to a different arrangement of dental tissues.
Gnarly Buttons Gnarly Buttons is a composition for solo clarinet and chamber ensemble by the American composer John Coolidge Adams. It was commissioned by the London Sinfonietta and by Present Music in Milwaukee, Wisconsin and was first performed at Queen Elizabeth Hall in London on October 19, 1996 with the London Sinfonietta and Michael Collins as solo clarinetist.
Gnasher and Gnipper Gnasher and Gnipper is a comic strip in The Beano starring the dog Gnasher (from Dennis the Menace), his son Gnipper, Dennis' Father and Dennis' Mother. It does not always feature Dennis himself, or his sister Bea.
Gnashville Sounds Records Gnashville Sounds Records is a small independent record label based in Los Angeles, California. The company specializes in rock, Americana, country music and singer/songwriter releases primarily aimed at an adult alternative audience.
Gnassingbé Eyadéma General Gnassingbé Eyadéma, formerly Étienne Eyadéma (December 26, 1937 – February 5, 2005), was the President of Togo from 1967 until his death. He participated in two successful military coups, in January 1963 and January 1967, and became President on April 14, 1967.
Gnat The term gnat is applied as a colloquial name to any of various small insects in the order Diptera and specifically within the suborder Nematocera. This suborder represents the more primitive members of the Dipteran order but still contains several very notable and important families such as the Chironomidae (non-biting midges) and the Culicidae (mosquitoes).
Gnatcatcher The 15 species of small passerine birds in the gnatcatcher family occur in North and South America. Most species of this mainly tropical and sub-tropical group are resident, but the Blue-gray Gnatcatcher of the USA and southern Canada migrates south in winter.
Gnateater The gnateaters are a family of ten small passerine bird species in two genera, which occur in South America. The family was formerly restricted to the gnateater genus Conopophaga; analysis of mtDNA cytochrome b and NADH dehydrogenase subunit 2 sequences (Rice, 2005) indicates that the bar-bellied "antpittas", Pittasoma, also belong into this family.
Gnathobdellid Gnathobdellids, or "jawed leeches", are a group of leeches with 2 to 3 jaws containing small sharp teeth. These leeches have chitinous (exoskeletal) jaws and no proboscis, belonging to the family Haemadipsidae.
Gnathorhizidae The Gnanthorhizidae are an extinct family of lungfish that lived from the late Carboniferous until the middle Triassic. Gnathorhizid fossils have been found in North America, Madagascar, Australia, and possibly Eastern Europe and South Africa.
Gnathostoma spinigerum Gnathostoma spinigerum is a parasitic nematode that causes gnathostomiasis in humans, also known as creeping eruption, larva migrans, Yangtze edema, Choko-Fuschu Tua chid and wandering swelling. Gnathostomiasis in animals can be serious, and even fatal.
Gnathostomiasis Gnathostomiasis is the human infection by the nematode (roundworm) Gnathostoma spinigerum and/or Gnathostoma hispidum, which infects vertebrate animals. Specifically, the disease is due to migrating immature worms.
Gnaviyani Atoll Gnaviyani Atoll or Fuvammulah is the smallest atoll in the Maldives, situated in the channel between Huvadhu and Addu. It consists of only one island, which is, however, one of the largest islands in the Maldives.
Gnawa The Gnawa or Gnaoua refers at once to a style of Moroccan music with sub-Saharan Africa origins or influence, an ethnic group and religious order at least in part descended from former slaves from Sub-Saharan Africa or black Africans migrated in caravans with the Trans-Saharan trade, or a combination of both.
Gnällbältet Gnällbältet, Swedish, "The whining belt", a geographic belt in central Sweden where the dialects have certain features in common, mostly extensive usage of the schwa sound. The belt consists of Västmanland, Närke and Östergötland.
Gneiss Gneiss (IPA: ) is a common and widely distributed type of rock formed by high-grade regional metamorphic processes from preexisting formations that were originally either igneous or sedimentary rocks. Gneissic rocks are coarsely foliated and largely recrystallized but do not carry large quantities of micas, chlorite or other platy minerals.
Gnessin State Musical College The Gnessin State Musical College or, literally translated, Russian Academy of Music named after the Gnessins (Российская академия музыки имени Гнесиных) is a prominent conservatoire in Moscow, Russia.
Gnetophyta The plant division Gnetophyta or gnetophytes comprise three related families of woody plants grouped in the gymnosperms, a possibly paraphyletic group of seed plant divisions. The gnetophytes differ from other gymnosperms in having vessel elements as in the flowering plants (Angiosperms or Magnoliophytes), and on the basis of morphological data it has been suggested that Gnetophytes may be the group of spermatophytes most closely related to the flowering plants.
Gnetum gnemon Gnetum gnemon is a species of Gnetum native to southeast Asia and the western Pacific Ocean islands, from Assam south and east through Malaysia and Indonesia to the Philippines and Fiji. Common names include Melinjo or Belinjo (Indonesian language), Bago (Malay language, Tagalog language), Peesae (Thai language) and Bét, Rau bép, Rau danh or Gắm (Vietnamese language).
Gnezdovo Gnezdovo or Gnyozdovo () is an archeological site located near the village of Gnyozdovo in Smolensk Oblast, Russia. The site contains extensive remains of a Slavic-Varangian settlement which flourished in the 10th century as a major trade station on the trade route from the Varangians to the Greeks.
GnGeo GnGeo is a software emulator for the Neo-Geo game platform that runs on Linux and Mac OS X. It is notable for the fact that it uses specialized cores to emulate the main processors, giving it a significant performance boost over more general emulators such as MAME.
Gniewkowo Gniewkowo (Argenau in German) is a town in northern Poland with a population of 7, 301 (2005). The town is part of the inowroclawski powiat (county) and is the administrative seat of a gmina (commune) named Gniewskowo as well.
Gniezno Gniezno (pronounced: ['gɲȋεznɔ], ) is a town in central-western Poland, some 50 km east of Poznań, inhabited by about 73,000 people. Situated in the Greater Poland Voivodeship (since 1999), previously in Poznań Voivodeship.
Gniezno Voivodeship Gniezno Voivodeship (Polish: Województwo Gnieźnieńskie, Latin: Palatinatus Gnesnensis) was a unit of administrative division and local government in Poland for a short time from 1768, when it was cut from the Kalisz Voivodeship, to the partitions of Poland in 1772-1795. It was part of Greater Poland province.
Gnits Standards The Gnits Standards are a collection of standards and recommendations for programming, maintaining, and distributing software. They are published by a group of GNU project maintainers who call themselves "Gnits", which is short for "GNU Nit-pickers".
Gnoblar Gnoblars are fantasy creatures from the universe of the Warhammer Fantasy games. Gnoblars are goblinoids and are smaller cousins of normal goblins and orcs, of the size about halfway between goblins and snotlings.
Gnod GNOD, The Global Network of Dreams, is a recommendation system for music, movies and authors of books, created by Marek Gibney. A user entering one of the three areas provides three favorites, adding to GNOD's database of associations.
Gnome A gnome is a legendary creature characterized by its very small size and subterranean lifestyle. According to the alchemist Paracelsus, gnomes are the most important of the elemental spirits of the classical element of earth; they move as easily through the earth as humans walk upon it, have conical hats, and the sun's rays turn them into stone.
Gnome (Dragonlance) In the Dragonlance setting of novels and role-playing games created by Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman, gnomes are a fictional humanoid race. The gnomes of Dragonlance (minoi, pronounced [minoj]) are sometimes called tinker gnomes
Gnome (Dungeons & Dragons) In the Dungeons & Dragons fantasy role-playing game, gnomes are a humanoid race, and are one of the core races available for play as player characters. They are closely related to dwarves, but are more tolerant of other races and of magic, and are skilled with machines and illusions.
Gnome Basic Gnome Basic (GB) was a software project whose goal was to provide Visual Basic compatible functionality for the GNOME project. Compatible functionality with Microsoft Office's Visual Basic for Applications was considered especially important.
Gnome et RhĂ´ne Gnome et RhĂ´ne was a major French aircraft engine manufacturer. Between 1914 and 1918 they produced 25,000 of their 9-cylinder Delta and Le RhĂ´ne 110 hp (81 kW) rotary designs, while another 75,000 were produced by various licensees, powering the majority of aircraft in the first half of the war on both sides of the conflict.
Gnome Monosoupape The Monosoupape, French for single-valve, was a particular engine design used by Gnome et RhĂ´ne's later rotary engines. It used a clever arrangement of internal ports and a single valve to replace a large number of parts normally found on a conventional arrangement, and made the Monosoupape engines some of the most reliable of the era.
Gnome Press Gnome Press was a US small-press publishing company primarily known for being the first to publish Isaac Asimov's Foundation Trilogy, and for bringing Robert E. Howard's Conan the Barbarian stories back from pulp obscurity.
Gnome sort Gnome sort is a sorting algorithm which is similar to insertion sort except that moving an element to its proper place is accomplished by a series of swaps, as in bubble sort. The name comes from the supposed behavior of the Dutch garden gnome in sorting a line of flowerpots.
Gnome Wave Cleaner Gnome Wave Cleaner (GWC) is a digital audio editor application released under the GNU General Public License as free software. The graphical user interface for the editor has been produced using the GTK+ library.
Gnome-panel Gnome-panel is a highly configurable launcher and task bar for X windowing environments. Gnome-panel also includes applets for displaying system and other information, and a system notification area, where applications can dock an icon that allows quick interaction with the application without accessing a window proper.
Gnomedex Gnomedex is an annual technical conference, coordinated by Lockergnome founder Chris Pirillo, that began in late 2001, and has so far been held six times. It is not affiliated with the desktop environment GNOME.
Gnomeo and Juliet Gnomeo and Juliet is the announced title of a motion picture which Miramax Films and Sir Elton John's Rocket Pictures have said will be released in Christmas 2008. The film reportedly stars Ewan McGregor as Gnomeo, Kate Winslet as Juliet, Judi Dench as Nurse and Greg Ellis as Tybalt.
Gnomes (Discworld) Gnomes are the smallest humanoid species on the Discworld (a fictional flat world created by Terry Pratchett) ranging from four inches (10cm) to 2 feet (61cm) in height. There may be some confusion between the names gnome, goblin, and pictsie, which are more-or-less interchangeable terms for the same creature.
Gnomes of ZĂĽrich Gnomes of ZĂĽrich is a disparaging term for Swiss bankers. The term was coined by the British Labour Party politician Harold Wilson, then Shadow Chancellor, on November 12, 1956 when he accused Swiss bankers of pushing the pound down on the foreign exchange markets by speculation.

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