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GISTEMP

GISTEMP, the GISS Surface Temperature Analysis, is NASA's estimate of global surface temperature change, produced by the Goddard Institute for Space Studies from land and ocean data since 1880.

Git

Git is a free and open-source distributed version control system that records changes to files, most often source code, created by Linus Torvalds in 2005 for Linux kernel development.

GIT1

GIT1 (G protein-coupled receptor kinase-interacting protein 1, p95-APP1) is an ARF GTPase-activating scaffold protein at 17q11.2 that forms GIT–PIX–PAK complexes regulating focal adhesions, cell migration, and synapse formation; biallelic loss-of-function variants cause a syndromic neurodevelopmental disorder with microcephaly.

Gita Gopinath (ഗീത ഗോപിനാഥ്)

Gita Gopinath (ഗീത ഗോപിനാഥ്), Indian-born American economist, Harvard's Gregory and Ania Coffey Professor; IMF Chief Economist 2019–22 (first woman in the role) and First Deputy Managing Director 2022–25.

Gita Govinda

Gita Govinda (गीत गोविन्द), also Gitagovinda, is a 12th-century Sanskrit lyric poem by Jayadeva on the love of Radha and Krishna, in 12 chapters and 24 ashtapadi songs, sung nightly at Puri's Jagannath temple and central to Odissi dance and Indian painting traditions.

Gita Persada Butterfly Park

Gita Persada Butterfly Park (Taman Kupu-Kupu Gita Persada) is a butterfly conservation and ecotourism site in Bandar Lampung, Indonesia, founded 1997 by Anshori Djausal and Herawati Soekardi; it holds about 160-200 Sumatran species and breeds the protected Troides helena.

Gita Rahasya

Gita Rahasya (गीता रहस्य) is a Marathi commentary on the Bhagavad Gita written by Bal Gangadhar Tilak in Mandalay jail, arguing the Gita teaches karma yoga, desireless action.

Gitanas Nausėda

Gitanas Nausėda (born 1964, Klaipėda) is a nonparty Lithuanian economist, former Bank of Lithuania and SEB Bank chief economist, and President of Lithuania since July 12, 2019, reelected in May 2024.

Gitanjali (গীতাঞ্জলি)

Gitanjali (গীতাঞ্জলি), or Song Offerings, is Rabindranath Tagore's 1910 Bengali collection of 157 devotional songs; its 1912 English self-translation of 103 prose poems, introduced by W. B. Yeats, won the 1913 Nobel Prize in Literature.

Gitanjali J Angmo

Gitanjali J Angmo (also Gitanjali JB), Indian social entrepreneur and educator; co-founder, CEO, and dean of the Himalayan Institute of Alternatives, Ladakh (HIAL) with Sonam Wangchuk; Physics graduate and XIMB MBA, 2009 world karate champion, NITI Aayog Women Transforming India awardee, and wife of Sonam Wangchuk.

Gitanos

Gitanos (Calé) are the Romani people of Spain, present since a 1425 safe conduct from Alfonso V; the word derives from "Egipto Menor." They endured the 1499 Pragmática, the 1749 Gran Redada, and the Porrajmos, gaining legal equality with the 1978 Constitution.

Gitavali

Gitavali is a sixteenth-century Hindi song-cycle by the poet Tulsidas, retelling the whole story of Rama as devotional songs in Braj Bhasha, divided into seven kands like his epic Ramcharitmanas.

Gitega

Gitega, Burundi's political capital since February 2019 and second city, former royal seat of the mwami, German-founded 1912; highland Kirimiro plateau town with Senate, presidential palace, National Museum, and Gishora sacred drums.

Gitelman syndrome

Gitelman syndrome (familial hypokalemia-hypomagnesemia) is an autosomal recessive salt-losing tubulopathy caused by SLC12A3 mutations impairing the distal tubule NCC cotransporter, causing hypokalemia, hypomagnesemia, alkalosis, and hypocalciuria.

GITEX Global

GITEX Global is an annual technology and AI trade exhibition in Dubai, first held in 1981 as the Gulf Computer Exhibition and described as the world's largest tech and AI event.

GitGuardian

GitGuardian is a Paris-based cybersecurity company founded in 2017 by Eric Fourrier and Jérémy Thomas that detects secrets like API keys exposed in code repositories, raising $106 million.

GitHub

GitHub is a developer platform where developers store, review, and collaborate on code repositories, launched in April 2008, acquired by Microsoft in 2018 for $7.5 billion, and reporting more than 180 million developers in 2025.

GitHub Actions

GitHub Actions is a continuous integration and delivery platform built into GitHub, where workflows defined as YAML files automate builds, tests, and deployments on hosted or self-hosted runners.

GitHub code corpus

A GitHub code corpus is a large training dataset assembled from public GitHub repositories, filtered and packaged to train models of code, including BigCode's The Stack and the data behind Codex.

GitHub Codespaces

GitHub Codespaces is GitHub's cloud-hosted development environment, launched in 2021, which runs each project workspace as a Docker container on a dedicated virtual machine, configurable per repository.

GitHub Copilot

GitHub Copilot is an AI-assisted coding tool launched in technical preview by GitHub and OpenAI in 2021, powered by OpenAI Codex, that suggests code as developers type.

Githyanki

Githyanki: D&D fictional race of astral-raiding warriors created by Charles Stross (name from George R. R. Martin's Dying of the Light), first in White Dwarf #12 (1979); split from githzerai, ruled by lich-queen Vlaakith CLVII, known for red dragons and silver swords.

Gitimalya

Gitimalya (গীতিমাল্য), meaning "garland of songs", is a 1914 collection of Bengali songs and poems by Rabindranath Tagore whose poems fed the English Song Offerings and formed a trilogy with Gitanjali and Gitali.

GitLab

GitLab, also known as GitLab FOSS, is a DevOps platform combining Git-based source code management, CI/CD, planning tools, and security scanning, founded in Ukraine in 2011.

GitLab CI/CD

GitLab CI/CD is the continuous integration and continuous delivery system built into GitLab, in which pipelines defined in a .gitlab-ci.yml file build, test, and deploy code through agents called runners.

GitLab Inc.

GitLab Inc. is an American software company that develops GitLab, a single-application DevSecOps platform. Started in 2011 as an open source project, it went public in 2021.

Gitlow v. New York

Gitlow v. New York, 268 U.S. 652 (1925): Supreme Court case upholding Benjamin Gitlow's criminal anarchy conviction for the Left Wing Manifesto while first applying First Amendment speech and press rights to the states via the Fourteenth Amendment.

GitOps

GitOps is an operating model for software delivery in which a Git repository holds the desired state of infrastructure and an automated controller continuously reconciles the running system to match it.

Gitta Connemann

Gitta Connemann, born 1964, is a German CDU politician who has represented Unterems in the Bundestag since 2002 and serves as Parliamentary State Secretary for Digital and State Modernisation.

Gitte Madsen

Gitte Madsen (Gitte Madsen-Kaarod), born 1969 in Herning, Danish handball player; Olympic gold 1996 Atlanta, world gold 1997, European gold 1996; 120 caps, 288 goals; clubs Horsens HK, Bækkelagets SK, DHG, GOG; retired 2000 after discus injuries.