g (EN)

letter, noun, symbol

letter “g”

1. the lowercase form of the letter "G"
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   In the word "giraffe", the letter "g" is pronounced soft.

noun “g”

1. an abbreviation of "grand" (a thousand dollars)
   I can't believe my new laptop cost me 2 gs!

symbol “g”

1. the symbol representing the gram (a unit of weight)
   The recipe calls for 200g of flour.
2. the symbol indicating the rate at which objects accelerate towards Earth due to gravity
   When an object falls freely towards the Earth, it accelerates at a rate of g = 9.81 m/s^2.
3. in physics, the symbol for a gluon (a fundamental particle involved in holding quarks together)
   In quantum chromodynamics, denoted by "g", are responsible for holding quarks together within protons and neutrons.