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General insurance
General insurance, also known as property and casualty insurance, is insurance other than life insurance, covering car, home, liability, and commercial risks on short terms.
General Insurance Corporation of India
General Insurance Corporation of India, known as GIC Re, is India's state-owned reinsurance company, incorporated in 1972 and ranked the 9th largest global reinsurer in 2025.
General Intuition
General Intuition is an AI research startup founded in 2025 by Pim de Witte as a spin-out from Medal, building world and action models trained on gameplay video.
General Jewish Labour Bund
General Jewish Labour Bund (Algemeyner Yidisher Arbeter Bund), secular socialist Jewish party founded in Vilna 1897; doikayt, Yiddish cultural autonomy, anti-Zionist; largest Jewish party in interwar Poland; Holocaust resistance; continues via IJLB.
General knowledge
General knowledge is the breadth of facts a person holds about the world, spanning history, science, and the arts; psychometrics treats it as crystallized intelligence.
General Land Survey
The General Land Survey (Генеральное межевание) was a state-run demarcation of landholdings in the Russian Empire, announced by Catherine II in 1765 and carried out into the late 19th century.
General ledger
The general ledger, also called the nominal ledger, is the complete record of all a business's accounts and transactions, serving as the master record from which financial statements are prepared.
General Lee (car)
The General Lee is the orange 1969 Dodge Charger of The Dukes of Hazzard (CBS, 1979–1985), with "01" doors, Confederate roof flag, and Dixie horn; over 300 were wrecked in stunts, about 19 survive, and Lee 1 sold to Bubba Watson in 2012.
General Line for the Transition Period
The General Line for the Transition Period (过渡时期总路线) was the Chinese Communist Party's 1953 program for socialist industrialization and the socialist transformation of agriculture, handicrafts, and commerce.
General linear group
The general linear group GL_n(R) is the group of all invertible n by n matrices over a ring R, forming a group under matrix multiplication.
General linear model
The general linear model, or multivariate linear regression, is the statistical framework Y = Xβ + ε that underlies t-tests, ANOVA, ANCOVA, and regression, estimated by ordinary least squares.
General manager
A general manager (GM) is the executive accountable for a business unit's overall results with authority across its functions, from hotels to corporate divisions to sports teams, where the GM handles roster construction, contracts, and trades.
General Maritime Treaty of 1820
The General Maritime Treaty of 1820 was signed at Ras al-Khaimah in January 1820 between Britain and Gulf Arab tribes, binding them to cease plunder and piracy.
General Matter
General Matter, Inc., a California-based American uranium enrichment startup founded in 2024 and incubated at Founders Fund, is building a $1.5 billion enrichment facility in Paducah, Kentucky.
General Medical Council
The General Medical Council (GMC) is the statutory regulator of doctors in the United Kingdom, established in 1858 and since 2024 also regulating physician associates.
General MIDI
General MIDI (GM, GM1, GM2, GM Lite) is a MIDI Manufacturers Association standard defining a minimum synthesizer configuration: 128 standardized instrument sounds, percussion on channel 10, and 24-voice minimum polyphony, superseded by GM2 in 1999.
General Mills
General Mills (NYSE: GIS), Minneapolis-based packaged food company founded 1866 as the Washburn-Crosby flour mill, renamed 1928. Owns Cheerios, Pillsbury, Betty Crocker, Blue Buffalo; FY2026 net sales $18.4 billion.
General Mobile Radio Service
The General Mobile Radio Service (GMRS) is a licensed FCC radio service using 462 and 467 MHz bands for short-distance two-way voice communication in the United States.
General Motors
General Motors, or GM, is an American automaker headquartered in Detroit, Michigan. Founded by William Durant in 1908, it sells vehicles under the Chevrolet, Buick, Cadillac, and GMC brands.
General Motors 60° V6 engine
The General Motors 60° V6 engine is an engine family with 60-degree cylinder banks produced from 1980 into the 2000s, starting as a 2.8-liter Chevrolet design.
General Motors Atlas engine
The General Motors Atlas engine family is a series of all-aluminum inline four-, five-, and six-cylinder engines that GM produced from the 2002 model year through 2012.
General Motors Delta platform
The General Motors Delta platform is a GM compact car architecture debuted in the 2003 Saturn Ion and engineered by Opel in Germany, used in the Chevrolet Cobalt and Cruze.
General Motors Epsilon platform
The General Motors Epsilon platform is a front-wheel-drive vehicle architecture developed mainly by Opel in Germany, debuting in the 2002 Opel Vectra and 2003 Saab 9-3.
General Motors EV1
The General Motors EV1, also known as the GM EV1, was a two-seat battery-electric car General Motors leased, never sold, in the United States from 1996 to 1999.
General Motors F platform
The General Motors F platform, known as the F-body, was a rear-wheel-drive automobile platform that carried the Chevrolet Camaro and Pontiac Firebird across four generations, from 1967 to 2002.
General Motors ignition switch recalls
The General Motors ignition switch recalls, also called the ignition switch scandal, were 2014 recalls of about 2.6 million small cars whose defective switches disabled airbags, causing 124 deaths.
General Motors J platform
The General Motors J platform, commonly called the J-body or J-car, was a front-wheel-drive compact platform GM produced from 1981 to 2005, chiefly in the United States.
General Motors LS-based small-block engine
The General Motors LS-based small-block engine, or Chevy LS, is a family of pushrod V8 engines introduced with the 1997 Chevrolet Corvette's 5.7 L LS1.
General Motors streetcar conspiracy
The General Motors streetcar conspiracy alleges GM and National City Lines destroyed US electric rail transit. A 1949 antitrust conviction covered monopolizing bus sales, not destroying streetcars; historians dispute the broader claim.
General Motors W platform
The General Motors W platform, known as the W-body, was a front-wheel-drive GM car architecture built from 1988 to 2016 for models like the Regal, Lumina, Grand Prix, and Impala.