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Giant slalom
Giant slalom (GS): technical alpine skiing discipline with gates 20–30 m apart, 250–450 m vertical drop, two-run combined-time format, ~80 kph; also the snowboard head-to-head event parallel giant slalom, Olympic since 1998/2002.
Giant squid
Giant squid (Architeuthis dux), a deep-sea squid up to about 12-13 m verified length, with the largest eyes in the animal kingdom; preyed on by sperm whales, first filmed alive in its habitat in 2012.
Giant squid in popular culture
Giant squid in popular culture: the kraken, Sea Monks, Verne's 20,000 Leagues squid, Disney's 1954 model, Pirates of the Caribbean, and how Architeuthis moved from myth to filmed fact.
Giant star
A giant star is a star that becomes unusually large and luminous late in its life, after core hydrogen exhaustion; in the Morgan-Keenan system it is luminosity class III.
Giant Steps
Giant Steps, John Coltrane's 1960 Atlantic album, his first for the label with all seven tracks self-composed, built on fast major-third key changes known as Coltrane changes, recorded May 1959 with Tommy Flanagan, Paul Chambers, and Art Taylor.
Giant tortoise
Giant tortoise: the huge island tortoises of Galápagos (Chelonoidis) and Aldabra (Aldabrachelys gigantea), up to 573 lb, over 100 years old, keystone herbivores now central to island rewilding.
Giant trevally
The giant trevally (Caranx ignobilis) is a large marine fish of the jack family Carangidae, widespread in the tropical Indo-Pacific and popular as a commercial fish and gamefish.
Giant virus
Giant viruses, also called NCLDVs or Nucleocytoviricota, are dsDNA eukaryotic viruses with genomes over 500 kb; mimivirus was found in 2003, Pithovirus reaches 1.5 micrometers, and phylogenomics shows gigantism evolved from smaller viruses independently.
Giant-cell myocarditis
Giant-cell myocarditis (GCM), also called giant cell myocarditis, is a rare T cell–mediated autoimmune inflammation of the heart causing fulminant failure and arrhythmias; diagnosed by endomyocardial biopsy, treated with combined immunosuppression, and often requiring transplant.
Giant-impact hypothesis
The giant-impact hypothesis, also called the Big Whack, holds that the Moon formed from debris ejected when a Mars-sized body called Theia struck young Earth roughly 4.5 billion years ago.
Giant-Man
Giant-Man is a Marvel Comics superhero identity, first the size-growing alias of Hank Pym (debut Tales to Astonish #49, November 1963, by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby), later held by Bill Foster from Marvel Two-in-One #55 (1979).
Giant's Causeway
Giant's Causeway, County Antrim, Northern Ireland: about 40,000 polygonal basalt columns formed by Palaeogene volcanism around 60 million years ago; UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1986, linked by legend to Fionn mac Cumhaill.
Giants (Greek mythology)
Gigantes (Γίγαντες), the Giants of Greek mythology: earth-born offspring of Gaia, from Ouranos' blood, who fought the Olympians in the Gigantomachy, distinct from the Titans, killed with Heracles' help, depicted on the Parthenon and Pergamon Altar.
Giants & Monsters
Giants & Monsters (ジャイアンツ＆モンスターズ) is Helloween's 17th studio album, released August 29, 2025 on Reigning Phoenix Music; second album by the seven-member Pumpkins United lineup with Kai Hansen and Michael Kiske, featuring the singles This Is Tokyo and Universe (Gravity For Hearts).
Giants and Toys (巨人と玩具)
Giants and Toys (巨人と玩具, Kyojin to gangu, aka The Build-Up) is a 1958 Daiei satire directed by Masumura Yasuzo from Kaiko Takeshi's novel, in which three caramel companies wage an advertising war and build a teenage girl into a manufactured celebrity.
Giants Stadium
Giants Stadium was a multi-purpose stadium in East Rutherford, New Jersey (1976-2010), home of the NFL's New York Giants and Jets, host of seven 1994 World Cup matches, Pelé's farewell, and the 1999 Women's World Cup opening, demolished for MetLife Stadium.
Giants: Citizen Kabuto
Giants: Citizen Kabuto, 2000 Planet Moon Studios/Interplay action game mixing third-person shooting with RTS base building across three factions: Meccaryns, Sea Reapers, and the giant Kabuto.
Giants' grave of Sa Dom'è s'Orcu (Quartucciu)
Giants' grave of Sa Dom'è s'Orcu (Quartucciu), also called Is Concias, a Middle-to-Recent Bronze Age Nuragic giants' tomb in Sette Fratelli park near Cagliari, excavated by Enrico Atzeni in 1962.
Gianvito Martino
Gianvito Martino is an Italian neurologist and neuroimmunologist, born 1962 in Bergamo, who studies stem cell therapies for multiple sclerosis and led the first neural stem cell trial.
Giao Chi commandery
Giao Chi commandery (交趾郡) was the Han dynasty commandery established over the Red River delta of northern Vietnam in 111 BC, after Emperor Wu of Han destroyed Nanyue.
Giao Q. Phan
Giao Q. Phan is a surgical oncologist and cancer immunotherapy researcher whose 2003 study reported complete melanoma regressions from CTLA-4 blockade, cited by the 2018 Nobel Committee.
Giardia
Giardia (Giardia duodenalis, syn. G. lamblia, G. intestinalis) is a flagellated intestinal protozoan parasite causing giardiasis, a diarrheal disease spread by chlorine-resistant cysts in contaminated water, food, and fecal-oral contact; treated with tinidazole or metronidazole.
Giardiasis
Giardiasis, also called giardia infection, is diarrheal illness from the protozoan Giardia duodenalis (G. lamblia), spread via fecally contaminated water, food, or person-to-person contact; treated with tinidazole, metronidazole, or nitazoxanide.
Giardiniera
Giardiniera: Italian pickled-vegetable medley (cauliflower, carrot, celery, peppers) in vinegar brine, and its fiery Chicago descendant, oil-packed with hot sport peppers, the condiment of Italian beef sandwiches.
Gib Ford
Gib Ford (Gilbert Ford, 1931-2017), American basketball player; won gold with the USA at the 1956 Melbourne Olympics, then led Converse as President, Chairman, and CEO from 1986 to 1996.
Giba
Giba (Gilberto Amauri de Godoy Filho, born 1976) is a Brazilian volleyball outside hitter, 2004 Olympic champion and 2008, 2012 silver medalist, three-time world champion (2002, 2006, 2010), Hall of Fame 2018.
Gibbard–Satterthwaite theorem
Gibbard–Satterthwaite theorem: impossibility result of Gibbard (1973) and Satterthwaite (1975) that every onto, strategy-proof voting rule over three or more alternatives is dictatorial; central to social choice and mechanism design.
Gibbard's theorem
Gibbard's theorem, also called the Gibbard–Satterthwaite theorem in its voting form, is a 1973 social choice impossibility result: every onto, non-dictatorial decision scheme with three or more outcomes is manipulable by strategic misreporting.
Gibberella
Gibberella (teleomorph of Fusarium), ascomycete genus in Hypocreales; source of gibberellins from G. fujikuroi and crop pathogens such as G. zeae causing ear rot and DON, zearalenone, fumonisin mycotoxins.
Gibberella zeae
Gibberella zeae, sexual stage of Fusarium graminearum, causes Fusarium head blight of wheat and barley and maize ear rot, producing DON and zearalenone mycotoxins; billions in losses, regulated worldwide.