GC
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GC
- (metrology) Symbol for gigacoulomb, an SI unit of electric charge equal to 109 coulombs.
Etymology 2 edit
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GC
- (international standards) Indeterminately reserved ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code for the Gulf Cooperation Council Patent Office.
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This is an indeterminately reserved code, included as part of ISO 3166-1 on the request of the World Intellectual Property Organization due to its use in the WIPO ST.3 standard, and is not endorsed for general use by the ISO.
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GC (countable and uncountable, plural GCs)
- Initialism of gas chromatography.
- (anatomy) Initialism of germinal center.
- (cycling) Initialism of general classification.
- (Australia, film classification, dated) Initialism of general classification.
- (programming)
- Initialism of garbage collection.
- Initialism of garbage collector.
- Initialism of good condition.
- (biochemistry) Initialism of glucocorticoid.
- (biochemistry) Initialism of guanylate cyclase.
- (genetics, molecular biology) Initialism of guanine-cytosine.
- (text messaging) Initialism of group chat.
- (informal) Initialism of gender critical.
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:GC.
- Synonyms: FART (derogatory), GCF, gendercrit, gendercritter (derogatory), TERF, terven
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- (guanine-cytosine): GC content, GC-poor, GC-rich
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GC
- (Australia) Initialism of Gold Coast.
- (astronomy) Initialism of General Catalogue of Nebulae and Clusters.
- (astronomy) Initialism of Boss General Catalogue.
- (UK politics) Initialism of General Committee: the general management committee of a constituency party of the British Labour Party.
- (UK) Initialism of George Cross: a medal presented to civilians and military personnel of the United Kingdom for actions which are not in the face of the enemy.
- (video games) Nintendo GameCube
- (education) Initialism of Google Classroom.
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- (astronomy): NGC
Verb edit
GC
- (programming) Initialism of garbage collect.
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GC (not generally comparable, comparative more GC, superlative most GC)
- Initialism of gender-critical.
- 2020, Callie H. Burt, “Scrutinizing the U.S. Equality Act 2019: A Feminist Examination of Definitional Changes and Sociolegal Ramifications”, in Feminist Criminology, volume 15, number 4, page 25:
- GC feminism wholly rejects the notion that gender maps onto sex.
- 2020, Sarah Pedersen, The Politicization of Mumsnet[4], page 123:
- One poster, who thanked her for signing the letter, commented, 'The secrecy with which GC women have to find each other is just absurd. […]
- 2021 June, Craig McLean, “The Growth of the Anti-Transgender Movement in the United Kingdom: The Silent Radicalization of the British Electorate”, in International Journal of Sociology:
- Meanwhile, GC groups continue to lobby against amendments to the GRA, and are also campaigning against existing rights that trans people enjoy.
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:GC.
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GC m (uncountable)
- (medicine) Initialism of gasto cardíaco.