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Glossary of IT Terms beginning with "G"

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G11N
Globalization, details ...
GAC
Global Assembly Cache, details ...
GAL
Global Address List / Gallon / Galatians, details ...
Gantt Chart
Project management chart, details ...
Gazetteer
Dictionary of geographical names, details ...
GB
Giga-Byte / Giga-bit / Great Britain / God Bless, details ...
GBP
Great British Pound, details ...
GC
Garbage Collection, details ...
GDA
Guideline Daily Allowance, details ...
GDI
Graphics Device Interface, details ...
GDR
General Distribution Release, details ...
GE
Google Earth / Georgia / Genetic Engineering / Germanium, details ...
GEDCOM
Genealogical Data Communication, details ...
Generalisation
Science of small scale map production, details ...
Geocoding
Assigning a location to data so the data can be mapped or located, details ...
Georeferencing
Assigning Earth coordinates in a common system to location based data, details ...
GF
Girl Friend / General Fund / French Guiana, details ...
GFDL
GNU Free Documentation License, details ...
GI
Graphical Information, details ...
GIF
Graphic Interchange Format, details ...
Gigabyte
Unit of storage, details ...
Gigahertz
1,000,000,000 hertz, details ...
GIG
Gigatype / Gigahertz, details ...
GIGS
Gigabytes / Gigahertz, details ......
GIS
Geographic Information Systems, details ...
GML
Geography Markup Language / Game Maker Language, details ...
GMT
Greenwich Meridian Time, details ...
GNOME
GNU Network Object Model Environment, details ...
GNU
Free Software Foundation project, GNU's not Unix, details ...
Googol
10 raised to the power 100, details ...
Googolplex
10 raised to the power of a googol / The name of Google's headquarters building, details ...
Gopher
Document protocol for distributed document search, details ...
GP
Group Policy / General Practitioner, details ...
GPL
General Public License (GNU General Public License), details ...
GPMC
Group Policy Management Console, details ...
GPD
Generic Printer Description / Gallons Per Day, details ...
GPF
General Protection Fault, details ...
GPO
Group Policy Object / General Post Office, details ...
GPOE
Group Policy Object Editor, details ...
GPRS
General Packet Radio Service, details ...
GPS
Global Positioning System, details ...
GPU
Graphics Processing Unit, details ...
GRE
Gecko Runtime Environment / Generic Route Encapsulation protocol, details ...
GRP
Gateway Routing Protocol, details ...
Group Policy
Defines user and group configurations, details ...
GS
General Services / Gilberts Syndrome, details ...
GSDI
Global Spatial Data Infrastructure, details ...
GSI
Government Secure Internet / Grid Security Infrastructure, details ...
GSM
Global System for Mobile communications / Grams per square metre, details ...
GTT
Glyph Translation Table, details ...
GUI
Graphical User Interface, details ...
GUID
Globally Unique Identifier, details ...