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GECAM
GECAM (Gravitational wave high-energy Electromagnetic Counterpart All-sky Monitor; Chinese name 极目) is a pair of Chinese microsatellites launched in 2020 to monitor the whole sky in X-rays and soft gamma rays for gamma-ray bursts.
Gecheng site
葛城遗址 (Gecheng site), also called Heicheng, a Wu-state walled city in Danyang, Jiangsu, occupied from middle Western Zhou to late Spring and Autumn; three wall phases, seven moats, likely an early Wu capital.
Gecko
Gecko (Gekkota): a diverse group of lizards, 2,362 species, known for van der Waals-based adhesive toe pads with setae and spatulae, repeated toepad evolution, invasive house geckos, and heavy wildlife-trade pressure.
Gecko (Overdrive)
"Gecko (Overdrive)" is a 2014 single by Dutch DJ Oliver Heldens featuring vocals from English singer Becky Hill, which reached number 1 on the UK Singles Chart.
Gecko (software)
Gecko is the browser engine developed by the Mozilla Project, responsible for rendering web content, running JavaScript, and networking in Firefox, first released as open source in 1998.
Gecko Robotics
Gecko Robotics is a Pittsburgh-based robotics company founded in 2015 by Jake Loosararian and Troy Demmer that inspects warships, power plants, and pipelines with climbing robots.
Gecko tape
Gecko tape is a reusable synthetic dry adhesive whose microscopic, gecko-inspired fibrillar surface sticks through van der Waals forces, leaving no residue like chemical glue.
Gecko-inspired directional adhesive
A gecko-inspired directional adhesive is a synthetic dry adhesive copying gecko toe pads, gripping strongly under shear in one direction and releasing with little force in the other.
Gecko-inspired dry adhesive gripper
A gecko-inspired dry adhesive gripper is a robotic end-effector whose microstructured polymer pad grips through van der Waals forces, switched on and off by shear load.
Gecko-inspired switchable dry adhesives
Gecko-inspired switchable dry adhesives are synthetic surfaces with gecko-like fibrils that grip strongly and release on demand, switching between attachment and detachment via external stimuli or directional structure.
Gecong Zhou
Gecong Zhou (葛从周) was a Chinese general of the late Tang and early Later Liang who served Zhu Quanzhong from 884 and won battles across Hebei.
Gedaliah (son of Ahikam)
Gedaliah, also known as Gedalyahu ben Ahikam, was the Judean appointed by Nebuchadnezzar II to govern Judah after Jerusalem fell in 586 BCE, ruling from Mizpah until his murder.
Gedaliah son of Pashhur
Gedaliah son of Pashhur was a Judean official at Zedekiah's court who urged Jeremiah's death in Jeremiah 38:1; his seal impression was found in Jerusalem's City of David in 2008.
Gedaref
Gedaref (القضارف, Al Qadarif, El-Gadarif) is the capital city of Al Qadarif State in eastern Sudan, near the Ethiopian border. It anchors Sudan's largest rain-fed farming region, producing most of the country's sorghum and sesame, and hosts large displaced and refugee populations.
Gedatolisib
Gedatolisib, sold as Revtorpyk and formerly studied as PF-05212384, is an intravenous drug that inhibits PI3K and mTOR, approved in 2026 for HR-positive, HER2-negative metastatic breast cancer.
Gedde Watanabe
Gedde Watanabe (Gary Watanabe, born 1955, Ogden, Utah) is a Japanese American actor known for Long Duk Dong in Sixteen Candles (1984), Ling in Mulan, Nurse Yosh Takata on ER, and Broadway's Pacific Overtures.
Geddes (Mercurian crater)
Geddes is an 80-km impact crater on Mercury at 27.3N, 29.7W, named in 2010 for Irish artist Wilhelmina Geddes. Cut by Antoniadi Dorsum, it has an orange volcanic floor, a magma-withdrawal pit, and an estimated age of about 3.1 Ga.
Geddy Lee
Geddy Lee (Gary Lee Weinrib, born 1953, Toronto) is Rush's lead vocalist, bassist, and keyboardist; co-founder since 1968, Order of Canada recipient, solo album My Favourite Headache, memoir My Effin' Life, and 2026 Fifty Something reunion tour.
Gede-Pangrango
Gede-Pangrango: twin stratovolcanoes (Gede 2,958 m, Pangrango 3,019 m) 60 km south of Jakarta, West Java, last erupting in 1957; their rain forest forms Gunung Gede Pangrango National Park, a major hiking and biodiversity destination.
Gedeo Zone
Gedeo Zone is an administrative zone in the South Ethiopia Regional State of southern Ethiopia and the ancestral homeland of the Gedeo people, with Dilla as its capital.
Gédéon Dagan
Gedeon Dagan, born in Romania in 1932, is an Israeli hydrogeologist and Tel Aviv University professor emeritus, founder of stochastic subsurface hydrology and winner of the 1998 Stockholm Water Prize.
Gedichte
Gedichte is the first collected edition of Joseph von Eichendorff's poetry, published in Berlin in 1837, opening with the Wanderlieder cycle and containing Mondnacht and Zwielicht.
Gediminas
Gediminas (c. 1275–1341) was Grand Duke of Lithuania who founded the Gediminid dynasty and established Vilnius as capital, expanding rule and achieving major international recognition.
Gedion Timotheos
Gedion Timotheos, also spelled Gedion Timothewos, is an Ethiopian politician who serves as Minister of Foreign Affairs, representing Ethiopia at the African Union, BRICS, and the European Union.
Gedion Zelalem
Gedion Zelalem, born 1997 in Berlin, is a German-American midfielder, ex-Arsenal wonderkid and youngest Arsenal FA Cup player, later at Rangers, Sporting KC, NYCFC, and New Mexico United.
Gedo
Gedo is a region (gobolka) of southwestern Somalia, capital Garbahaarey, part of Jubbaland, bordering Ethiopia and Kenya; Marehan-dominant, contested by FGS, Jubbaland and Al-Shabaab, with severe food insecurity.
Gedrosia
Gedrosia (Kedrosia), the Greek name for southern Baluchistan's arid coastal region, matching Achaemenid Maka and later Makran; Alexander's sixty-day desert crossing of 325 BCE with Nearchus's coastal survey made it famous.
Gedson Fernandes
Gedson Carvalho Fernandes (born 1999, São Tomé) is a Portuguese midfielder from Benfica's academy; Primeira Liga 2019 winner, Tottenham loanee, Beşiktaş midfielder, now Spartak Moscow with 2 Portugal caps.
Gee (Girls' Generation song)
"Gee" (2009) by Girls' Generation (소녀시대), an E-Tribe dance-pop single from SM Entertainment's mini-album Gee; nine weeks at #1 on Music Bank, Korean Music Award Song of the Year, and Rolling Stone's greatest K-pop song (2023).
Gee Automotive Holdings, L.L.C.
Gee Automotive Holdings, L.L.C., operating as Gee Automotive Companies, is a family-owned automotive dealership group based in Liberty Lake, Washington, founded by George Gee in 1983.