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General Motors Y platform
The General Motors Y platform, or Y-body, is a GM vehicle architecture used for the 1961–1963 Buick, Oldsmobile, and Pontiac senior compacts and the Chevrolet Corvette through 2019.
General Motors Zeta platform
The General Motors Zeta platform was a rear-wheel-drive architecture developed by GM's Australian subsidiary Holden, debuting with the 2006 VE Commodore and later underpinning the Chevrolet Camaro and Pontiac G8.
General number field sieve
The general number field sieve (GNFS) is the fastest known classical algorithm for factoring arbitrary large integers, generalized by Buhler, Lenstra, and Pomerance in 1993 and used for RSA-250.
General of the Air Force
General of the Air Force is a five-star rank of the United States Air Force, held only by Henry H. "Hap" Arnold from 1949 until his death in 1950.
General of the Armies
General of the Armies of the United States is the senior Army grade, associated with Washington, Pershing, and Grant, though only Pershing held it in his lifetime.
General of the Army (United States)
General of the Army is the five-star, highest US Army rank, created December 14, 1944 (Public Law 482) to match Allied field marshals; held by Marshall, MacArthur, Eisenhower, Arnold, and Bradley, distinct from General of the Armies (Pershing, Washington).
General Office of the Chinese Communist Party Central Committee
The General Office of the Chinese Communist Party Central Committee (中共中央办公厅) is the party's chief secretarial, administrative, and security department, founded in May 1948 with Yang Shangkun as first director.
General officer
General officer: senior military officer of brigadier rank or above (above colonel in US usage); ranks include brigadier, major, lieutenant, and full general; term an Americanism from 1635–45; silver-star insignia dates to 1780.
General officers in the Confederate States Army
General officers in the Confederate States Army, 1861-1865: 498 appointed officers holding brigadier through full general rank, including Lee, Johnston, Beauregard, and Bragg, appointed by President Davis with congressional confirmation.
General officers in the United States
General officers in the United States are the O-7 to O-10 officers (brigadier through four-star general) of the Army, Air Force, Marine Corps, and Space Force; Navy equivalents are flag officers. Congress caps their numbers by law, currently 848 of 857 authorized.
General Order No. 11 (1862)
Grant's December 17, 1862 General Order No. 11 expelled Jews as a class from the Department of the Tennessee over cotton-trade violations; revoked by Lincoln in January 1863, it later shadowed his 1868 presidential campaign. Distinct from Ewing's 1863 order.
General paresis of the insane
General paresis of the insane (GPI), or paralytic dementia, is late neurosyphilis: chronic Treponema pallidum brain infection causing progressive dementia and paralysis 10–30+ years after syphilis, once common in asylums, now rare and penicillin-treatable.
General Pension and Social Security Authority (GPSSA)
The General Pension and Social Security Authority (GPSSA) is the United Arab Emirates' federal pension fund for Emirati nationals, operating under Federal Decree-Law No. 57 of 2023.
General Petroleum Company (Egypt)
General Petroleum Company (الشركة العامة للبترول), abbreviated GPC, is Egypt's first fully state-owned oil and gas producer, established in 1957 and owned by EGPC, ranking second among Egypt's oil producers.
General Post Office
The General Post Office was the UK state department that carried the mail from 1660 to 1969 and later ran the telegraph, telephone, and broadcasting services.
General practitioner
A general practitioner (GP), also called a family physician or family doctor, is a medical doctor who provides comprehensive primary care to people of all ages and sexes.
General Purpose Heat Source
The General Purpose Heat Source (GPHS) is a modular plutonium-238 fuel block, designed by Los Alamos National Laboratory, that supplies heat to spacecraft radioisotope power systems.
General radiotelephone operator license
The General Radiotelephone Operator License (GROL) is a commercial radio operator license issued by the FCC, created in 1981 to replace the First and Second Class licenses.
General Railway Signal
General Railway Signal Company, known as GRS, was an American manufacturer of railway signaling equipment in Rochester, New York, incorporated in 1904 and absorbed by Alstom in 1998.
General recursive function
A general recursive function, also called a μ-recursive or partial recursive function, is built from basic functions using composition, primitive recursion, and unbounded minimization, formalizing effective computability.
General regression neural network
A general regression neural network (GRNN) is a memory-based neural network for regression, introduced by Donald F. Specht in 1991 as a neural-network form of kernel regression.
General relativistic magnetohydrodynamics
General relativistic magnetohydrodynamics (GRMHD) combines magnetohydrodynamics with general relativity to describe magnetized plasma in curved spacetime, modeling black hole accretion, relativistic jets, and neutron star mergers.
General relativity
General relativity, also called the general theory of relativity, is Albert Einstein's 1915 theory that gravity is the curvature of spacetime; it passes every experimental test to date.
General Robotics (company)
General Robotics is an Israeli defense-technology company making lightweight remote weapon stations and teleoperated tactical robots, notably DOGO and PITBULL; SIG SAUER acquired it in 2023.
General Roman Calendar
The General Roman Calendar, also called the Roman calendar of saints, is the liturgical calendar of the Roman Rite, promulgated by Pope Paul VI in 1969.
General Safety Regulation
The General Safety Regulation, known as GSR2, is a 2019 EU regulation mandating safety features like intelligent speed assistance and event data recorders in new vehicles.
General Santos
General Santos (GenSan) is a highly urbanized city on Sarangani Bay, southern Mindanao, Philippines; the Tuna Capital with 722,059 residents (2024), a PhP 152.60 billion economy, and Asia-scale fish port.
General Schedule (US civil service pay scale)
The General Schedule is the US federal government's white-collar civil service pay scale: 15 grades (GS-1 to GS-15) with 10 steps each, covering about 1.5 million employees, adjusted by locality pay and special rates under OPM policy.
General Scholium
The General Scholium (Scholium Generale) is the essay Isaac Newton appended to the 1713 second edition of the Principia, attacking Cartesian vortices and framing his design argument.
General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party
General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party (中国共产党中央委员会总书记), the party's highest office, elected by the Central Committee from the Politburo Standing Committee; convenes Politburo meetings and heads the Secretariat; held by Xi Jinping since November 2012.