All articles starting with G

Genrō

Genrō (元老) were elder statesmen of Meiji and prewar Japan who advised the emperor and recommended prime ministers, ending with Saionji Kinmochi's death in 1940.

Sep 24, 2026

Genrōin

The Genrōin (元老院), or Chamber of Elders, was the legislative deliberative organ of early Meiji Japan, established in 1875 and abolished in 1890 with the opening of the Imperial Diet.

Genroku

Genroku (元禄) was a Japanese era name spanning 1688 to 1704, in the middle of the Edo period under shogun Tokugawa Tsunayoshi, when kabuki, haiku, fiction, and ukiyo-e prints flourished.

Genroku culture

Genroku culture (元禄文化, Genroku bunka) is the townsperson culture that flourished in Kyoto and Osaka during the Genroku era, 1688 to 1704, in the early Edo period.

Sep 24, 2026

Genroku earthquake

The Genroku earthquake (元禄地震) was a great earthquake on the Sagami Trough that struck Japan's Kantō region on December 31, 1703, killing more than 10,000 people.

Genroku Edo fire

The Genroku Edo fire (元禄の大火, Genroku no Taika) is the collective name for three great fires that struck the shogunal capital of Edo, present-day Tokyo, in 1697, 1698, and 1703.

Genroku kabuki

Genroku kabuki (元禄歌舞伎) is the kabuki theater of the Genroku era and surrounding decades, roughly 1688–1704, when regional acting styles, role types, and professional playwrights took form.

Genscript Probio (蓬勃生物)

GenScript ProBio (蓬勃生物) is a Nanjing-based contract development and manufacturing organization for biologics and cell and gene therapies, majority owned by Hong Kong-listed GenScript Biotech.

Genshin

Genshin (源信, 942–1017), also known as Eshin Sōzu, was a Japanese Tendai monk of the Heian period whose treatise Ōjōyōshū became the formative text of Japanese Pure Land Buddhism.

Gensim

Gensim ("Generate Similar") is a free, open-source Python library for unsupervised topic modeling and document embeddings, started in 2008 and designed to stream corpora larger than RAM.

Sep 29, 2026

The Gensini score is an angiographic index quantifying coronary artery disease severity from angiograms, weighting each stenosis by narrowing and segment importance, described by Goffredo Gensini in 1983.

Oct 21, 2026

Gensis

Gensis, a Roman road station on the Sirmium–Argentaria route in Pannonia Inferior, known only from the Tabula Peutingeriana; 30 Roman miles from Sirmium, location still debated.

Gensler

Gensler is a global architecture, design, and planning firm founded in San Francisco in 1965 by Art Gensler, now the largest architecture firm in the United States by revenue.

Genspark

Genspark is an AI agent from Palo Alto startup MainFunc, launched in 2024 as an AI search engine and pivoted in April 2025 to a super agent.

GenStat

GenStat is a commercial statistical software package for data analysis and graphics, developed at Rothamsted Experimental Station and now sold by VSN International, best known for its ANOVA and REML algorithms.

Gent–Wevelgem

Gent–Wevelgem, since 2026 In Flanders Fields – from Middelkerke to Wevelgem, is a Belgian one-day UCI WorldTour cycling classic founded in 1934, held late March, defined by De Moeren crosswinds and the cobbled Kemmelberg.

Gentamicin

Gentamicin, an aminoglycoside antibiotic from Micromonospora purpurea discovered in 1963, kills aerobic Gram-negative bacteria via 30S ribosome binding; dosed 5-7 mg/kg daily IV, limited by nephro- and ototoxicity, and currently in shortage in the US and Canada.

Gentari

Gentari is a clean energy solutions company wholly owned by Malaysia's state oil firm Petronas, launched in 2022 to deliver renewable energy, hydrogen, and green mobility solutions across Asia Pacific.

Gente de Zona

Gente de Zona (GDZ), Cuban reggaetón-salsa duo founded in 2000 in Alamar by Alexander Delgado, joined by Randy Malcom in 2013; famous for "Bailando" (41 weeks at No. 1 Hot Latin Songs) and "La Gozadera" with Marc Anthony.

Genteel tradition

The genteel tradition was the culturally conservative literary and moral establishment of the post-Civil War United States, centered on New England, dominant from roughly 1870 to 1910.

Gentefied

Gentefied is a Netflix bilingual comedy-drama (2020-2021) created by Marvin Lemus and Linda Yvette Chávez, executive produced by America Ferrera, about Mexican-American cousins saving their grandfather's Boyle Heights taco shop amid gentrification; canceled after two seasons, 18 episodes.

Gentherm

Gentherm, founded in 1991 as Amerigon, is an American thermal management company in Novi, Michigan, known for heated and cooled car seats and medical temperature management products.

Gentiana

Gentiana (gentians) is the largest genus of Gentianaceae, 347-400+ species of blue-flowered herbs of temperate and alpine regions; source of gentian root bitters and iridoid, xanthone, and flavonoid phytochemicals.

Oct 21, 2026

Gentiana lutea

Gentiana lutea, yellow gentian or bitterwort, a perennial European mountain herb whose bitter root (Gentianae radix) is used for appetite and digestive complaints, in bitters, and protected under EU Habitats Directive Annex V.

Gentianaceae

Gentianaceae (gentian family), cosmopolitan Gentianales family of about 100 genera and 1,700 species, mostly herbs with tubular contorted corollas, superior ovaries, seco-iridoids, and xanthones; includes Gentiana and Gentianella.

Oct 21, 2026

Gentianales

Gentianales (synonym Rubiales), an angiosperm order of lamiid eudicots named by Jussieu ex Berchtold & Presl in 1820, contains five families, Apocynaceae, Gelsemiaceae, Gentianaceae, Loganiaceae, and Rubiaceae, with about 1,200 genera and 20,000 species including coffee and gentians.

Gentile

Gentile is the standard English term for a non-Jew, from Latin gentilis via Hebrew goy/goyim ("nations") and Greek ethnē; covers biblical usage, rabbinic Noahide framework, Gentile Christianity, and modern connotations.

Gentilly nuclear power plant

Gentilly-2 is a shut-down 675 MW CANDU nuclear power plant in Bécancour, Quebec, run by Hydro-Québec from 1983 until the Québec government declined to refurbish it in 2012.

Genting Group

Genting Group, also known as Genting Berhad, is a Malaysian family-led conglomerate founded in 1965 by Lim Goh Tong, now a global operator of casinos and integrated resorts.