All articles starting with G

Genu varum

Genu varum, or bowlegs, is an outward knee bowing. Usually a physiologic childhood variant resolving by age 2-3; pathologic forms, chiefly Blount disease, rickets, and dysplasias, need guided growth or osteotomy.

Genuflection

Genuflection is a brief act of reverence in which a person bends one knee to the ground, signifying adoration in the Roman Rite of the Catholic Church.

Oct 10, 2026

Genuine Parts

Genuine Parts Company is an Atlanta-based distributor of automotive and industrial replacement parts, founded in 1928, with $24.3 billion in 2025 sales through its NAPA and Motion businesses.

Genus

Genus (plural genera): taxonomic rank above species supplying the first word of binomial names like Homo sapiens; governed by ICZN/ICBN rules, type species, monophyly, and genomic microbial taxonomy.

Genus (mathematics)

In mathematics, genus is a topological invariant that counts a surface's handles, so a sphere has genus 0 and a torus genus 1, with related versions in graph theory and knot theory.

Genus of a curve

The genus of a curve is a nonnegative integer measuring an algebraic curve's complexity; over the complex numbers it equals the number of handles of the curve as a Riemann surface.

Genusia

Genusia (Genusium), ancient town of Regio II Apulia et Calabria identified with Ginosa, Taranto; Peucetian settlement, civitas sociorum, then Roman municipium; attested by Pliny 3.105 and CIL IX 259-260.

Genvid Holdings

Genvid Holdings, formerly Genvid Technologies, is a New York media technology company founded in 2016 by Square Enix veterans, known for pioneering interactive livestreaming and Massive Interactive Live Events.

Genzebe Dibaba

Genzebe Dibaba (ዲባባ•ገንዘቤ), Ethiopian distance runner born 1991 in Bekoji; 2015 world 1500m champion, Rio 2016 Olympic silver, 3:50.07 1500m world record, five world indoor titles, and multiple indoor world records.

Geo (automobile)

Geo, also known as Chevrolet Geo, was a General Motors brand selling small Japanese-built cars like the Metro and Prizm through Chevrolet dealers from 1989 to 1997.

Geo Buchard

Géo Buchard (Georges Eugène William Buchard, 1893–1987), French épée fencer; Olympic team gold 1924 and 1932, three silvers, one bronze, and three individual world titles (1927, 1931, 1933).

GEO Group

The GEO Group (formerly Wackenhut Corrections) is a Boca Raton, Florida-based for-profit operator of prisons, ICE immigration detention centers, and reentry services, with about 95 facilities, 76,000 beds, and $2.4 billion 2024 revenue.

Geo Metro

The Geo Metro, later the Chevrolet Metro, was a subcompact economy car sold in North America from 1989 to 2001, a rebadged Suzuki Cultus known for leading EPA fuel economy rankings.

Oct 22, 2026

Geo Milev

Geo Milev (Гео Милев), born Georgi Kasabov Milev, was a Bulgarian expressionist poet best known for the poem September (1924); he disappeared in police custody in 1925.

GEO no. 27/2022

GEO no. 27/2022, Ordonanța de urgență a Guvernului nr. 27/2022, is a Romanian emergency ordinance of 18 March 2022 capping final electricity and gas prices, extended to 2026.

Geo Prizm

The Geo Prizm, sold as the Chevrolet Prizm from 1998, was a compact sedan built with the Toyota Corolla at NUMMI in California from 1989 to 2002.

Geo referenced data

Geo referenced data (georeferenced data) is digital map, image, or raster data tied to an Earth coordinate system, via CRS standards like WKT and formats like GeoTIFF, enabling GIS overlay, distance and area analysis, and geocoding-adjacent workflows.

Geo-Force

Geo-Force (Prince Brion Markov) is a DC Comics superhero, crown prince of Markovia, created by Mike W. Barr and Jim Aparo in The Brave and the Bold #200 (July 1983). A founding Outsider and half-brother of Terra, he manipulates rock, lava, and gravity.

Geo-Jade Petroleum Corp

Geo-Jade Petroleum Corp (洲际油气) is a Chinese independent oil and gas exploration and production company, listed in Shanghai since 1996, with assets in Kazakhstan, Iraq, and Albania.

Geo-KOMPSAT-2A

Geo-KOMPSAT-2A, also called Cheollian 2A, is a South Korean geostationary weather satellite launched in December 2018 from French Guiana, operated by the Korea Meteorological Administration.

GEO600

GEO600 is a British-German laser-interferometric gravitational-wave detector with 600 m arms near Hannover, Germany, operated by the Albert Einstein Institute and Leibniz Universität Hannover since 2002.

Geoarchaeota

Geoarchaeota, or Candidatus Geoarchaeota, is a candidate phylum of archaea known only from metagenomic sequence data, first reconstructed from acidic iron-oxide mats in Yellowstone National Park in 2013.

Geobacillus

Geobacillus: genus of Gram-positive, endospore-forming, obligately thermophilic bacteria (growth 37–75 °C, optimum 55–65 °C) established in 2001 from Bacillus group 5; source of thermostable enzymes, biofuel production, and dairy spoilage.

Geobacillus stearothermophilus

Geobacillus stearothermophilus, formerly Bacillus stearothermophilus, is a thermophilic spore-forming bacterium growing at 55-65°C whose spores are the standard biological indicator for steam, hydrogen peroxide plasma, and peracetic acid sterilization.

Geobacter

Geobacter: anaerobic Gram-negative metal-reducing bacteria, model species G. sulfurreducens, that respire via extracellular electron transfer to iron oxides, electrodes, and other cells using multiheme cytochromes and conductive filaments; used in uranium bioremediation and bioelectrochemical systems.