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Gezgin missile

Gezgin is a long-range land-attack cruise missile developed by TÜBİTAK SAGE for the Turkish Armed Forces. It is designed to eventually exceed 1,000 km in range.

Gezhi Town

Gezhi Town (得闲谨制) is a 2025 Chinese war drama directed by Kong Sheng, written by Lan Xiaolong, starring Xiao Zhan as machinist Mo Dexian; Nanjing refugees defend a mountain town from Japanese soldiers in 1944, grossing about $56 million.

Gezhouba converter station

Gezhouba converter station (葛洲坝换流站) near Yichang, Hubei, is the sending-end rectifier station of China's first long-distance HVDC link, a ±500 kV bipolar scheme carrying 1,200 MW about 1,045 km to Shanghai.

Gezhouba Dam

Gezhouba Dam (葛洲坝) is a large hydroelectric dam on the Yangtze River at Yichang, Hubei, China, built starting in 1970 as the test dam for the Three Gorges project.

Gezhouba hydroelectric plant

The Gezhouba hydroelectric plant (葛洲坝水利枢纽) is a dam and hydropower complex at Yichang, Hubei, China. Built from 1970 to 1988, it generates 2,777 MW and blocks Chinese sturgeon migration.

Gezi Park protests

The Gezi Park protests were a wave of nationwide anti-government demonstrations in Turkey beginning in late May 2013 over plans to redevelop Gezi Park in central Istanbul.

Gezira

Gezira (Al Jazirah), region of east-central Sudan between the Blue and White Niles, home of the Gezira Scheme, one of the world's largest irrigated farms; RSF overran it in 2023, wheat fell 58 percent, SAF retook Wad Madani in January 2025.

Gezira Scheme (مشروع الجزيرة)

The Gezira Scheme (مشروع الجزيرة) is a large irrigation scheme for cotton and food crops on the plain between the Blue Nile and White Nile, inaugurated in 1924.

Geziret el Marakeb

Geziret el Marakeb (Jazīrat al 'Ulbah, Seal Island) is a small barren island in Libya's Gulf of Bomba, Cyrenaica, with over sixty debated stone enclosures, Late Roman remains, and a proposed identification with Herodotus' Platea.

GF Securities

GF Securities (广发证券) is one of China's largest full-service securities firms, based in Guangdong province and dual-listed on the Shenzhen and Hong Kong stock exchanges.

GFAP

GFAP (glial fibrillary acidic protein), gene on 17q21.31, encodes the type III intermediate filament of mature astrocytes; marker of astrogliosis, cause of Alexander disease, and FDA-authorized blood biomarker for mild traumatic brain injury.

GFDL CM models

The GFDL CM models are a family of global coupled climate models developed at NOAA's Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory in Princeton, New Jersey, simulating past, present, and future climate.

GFH009 (CDK9 inhibitor; SLS009)

GFH009, also called SLS009 or tambiciclib, is a highly selective small-molecule CDK9 inhibitor in-licensed by SELLAS from GenFleet, developed for relapsed/refractory AML and lymphomas, with FDA orphan drug and fast-track designations and Phase 2a venetoclax-azacitidine combination testing.

GFL Environmental

GFL Environmental Inc. is a Canadian waste management and environmental services company founded by Patrick Dovigi in 2007, operating across Canada and 18 U.S. states.

GFlowNet

GFlowNet, or Generative Flow Network, is a family of generative models introduced in 2021 by Emmanuel Bengio and Yoshua Bengio that samples objects such as molecular graphs in proportion to a reward function.

GFN-xTB

GFN-xTB is a family of semiempirical quantum chemistry methods developed in Stefan Grimme's group at Bonn, computing molecular geometries, vibrational frequencies, and noncovalent interactions at a small fraction of DFT's cost.

GFN2-xTB

GFN2-xTB is a self-consistent semiempirical tight-binding quantum chemistry method published in 2019 by Bannwarth, Ehlert, and Grimme at the University of Bonn for fast calculation of structures and noncovalent interactions in systems of roughly 1000 atoms.

GFPT1

GFPT1 (GFAT1) is the rate-limiting enzyme of the hexosamine biosynthetic pathway, making UDP-GlcNAc for glycosylation; mutations cause congenital myasthenic syndrome 12 and overexpression drives cancer metabolism.

GFRA1

GFRA1 (GDNF family receptor alpha 1, also GDNFR-alpha, RETL1) is a human chromosome 10q25.3 gene encoding a GPI-anchored receptor that binds GDNF and neurturin and activates RET, with roles in kidney, enteric nervous system, and cancer.

GFriend (여자친구)

GFRIEND (여자친구) is a six-member South Korean girl group (Sowon, Yerin, Eunha, Yuju, SinB, Umji) formed by Source Music, which debuted January 2015 with Season of Glass, became known for the "power fresh" concept and string-led hits like Rough, split in May 2021, and reunited for the 2025 tenth-anniversary album Season of Memories.

GG Allin

GG Allin, born Jesus Christ Allin in 1956 and renamed Kevin Michael Allin, was an American punk rock singer-songwriter fronting bands from the Jabbers to the Murder Junkies, infamous for scatological, violent stage shows, over 50 arrests, and a 1993 accidental heroin overdose death.

GG Precinct (正港分局)

GG Precinct (正港分局) is a 2024 Taiwanese crime comedy Netflix series, a spin-off of the film Marry My Dead Body, directed by Cheng Wei-hao and Yin Chen-hao, following cops solving idiom-based serial murders.

GG Tau

GG Tau is a young quintuple star system located in the Taurus star-forming region. It consists of multiple stellar components and is surrounded by a well-studied protoplanetary disk.

Ġgantija

Ġgantija is a megalithic temple complex of two Neolithic structures on Gozo's Xagħra plateau, Malta, first excavated in the 1820s and inscribed by UNESCO in 1980 as part of the Megalithic Temples of Malta.

GGDEF domain

GGDEF domain: conserved bacterial diguanylate cyclase domain (Gly-Gly-Asp-Glu-Phe motif) synthesizing second messenger c-di-GMP from two GTP as an obligate homodimer; regulates biofilm, motility, virulence; absent from archaea and mammals.

GGE biplot analysis

GGE biplot analysis is a graphical statistical method for evaluating crop cultivars across environments, showing which genotype won where, mean performance, and stability, introduced by Weikai Yan and colleagues in 2000.

ggplot2

ggplot2 is an R package for declaratively creating statistical graphics based on the grammar of graphics, started by Hadley Wickham in 2005. It draws about 27.7 million CRAN downloads per year.

GGPO

GGPO (Good Game, Peace Out) is a rollback networking SDK for fighting games created by Tony Cannon in 2006; it predicts remote inputs, corrects errors with rollbacks, and was open-sourced under the MIT License.

GGSH-MC trial

GGSH-MC (Guided Growth in Spastic Hip - Multicenter Study, NCT06956729) is a Spanish multicenter randomized controlled trial testing proximal femoral guided growth plus standard care versus standard care in children aged 3-8 with spastic cerebral palsy and hip migration of 30-60%.

GGUF

GGUF (GPT-Generated Unified Format) is a single-file binary format for quantized machine-learning models, introduced by Georgi Gerganov in 2023 to replace GGML and now the standard for local inference.