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Glipizide

Glipizide, sold under the brand name Glucotrol, is an oral blood-glucose-lowering sulfonylurea drug used to improve glycemic control in adults with type 2 diabetes, approved in the United States in 1984.

Gliricidia

Gliricidia (quickstick, madre de cacao) is a Fabaceae genus of five species native from Mexico to Peru; G. sepium is a nitrogen-fixing agroforestry tree used as green manure, fodder, and living fence across the tropics.

Gliricidia sepium

Gliricidia sepium (quickstick, madre de cacao) is a Fabaceae tree native from Mexico to Colombia, planted pantropically for fodder, green manure, shade, living fences, and fuelwood; toxic to rodents, IUCN least concern.

Glis

Glis is a genus of dormice (family Gliridae) containing the fat or edible dormouse, the largest living dormouse, known for hibernating up to 7 months.

Glisas

Glisas (Glisa), ancient Boeotian settlement named in Iliad 2.504, identified with remains on the hill Tourleza near Ypato, Greece; occupied from Neolithic through Archaic times; Pleiades 540791.

Glissando

Glissando (gliss., plural glissandi) is a musical slide between two notes passing through intermediate pitches, performed on harp, piano, strings, trombone, voice, and synths; distinct from portamento, notated with a wavy or straight line.

Glitch

A glitch is a small, often transient fault that briefly disrupts the normal operation of a technology, from a logic circuit to a video stream.

Glitch (Australian TV series)

Glitch is an Australian supernatural drama (2015-2019, ABC/Netflix) created by Tony Ayres and Louise Fox, in which dead residents of the fictional town Yoorana return to life; three seasons, AACTA and Logie winner.

Glitch (music)

Glitch is an experimental electronic music genre using digital errors, skips, clicks, and artifacts as compositional material, pioneered by Oval, Autechre, and Alva Noto in the 1990s; also called Clicks and Cuts or Microsound, with subgenres glitch hop and glitch pop.

Glitch (글리치)

Glitch (글리치) is a 2022 South Korean Netflix limited series, 10 episodes released October 7, 2022, directed by Roh Deok and written by Jin Han-sae, starring Jeon Yeo-bin and Nana as women investigating a boyfriend's disappearance, aliens, and a cult.

Glitch Productions

Glitch Productions (formerly Glitchy Boy) is an independent Sydney-based Australian animation studio founded in 2017 by brothers Kevin and Luke Lerdwichagul, creators of Meta Runner, Murder Drones, and The Amazing Digital Circus, self-funded chiefly through merchandise.

Glitch Techs

Glitch Techs is a 2020 Nickelodeon-produced animated sci-fi comedy on Netflix, created by Eric Robles and Dan Milano, about teens Miko and High Five hunting video game monsters; two seasons, 19 episodes, ended 2020.

Glitter

Glitter is a decorative material of small, flat, reflective flakes cut from plastic film, mica, or metal, used in cosmetics, arts and crafts, fashion, and holiday decorations.

Glitter (film)

Glitter is a 2001 American drama film starring Mariah Carey as singer Billie Frank, directed by Vondie Curtis-Hall and widely regarded as one of the worst films ever made.

Glitter (soundtrack)

Glitter (soundtrack), Mariah Carey's 2001 Virgin Records album for her film Glitter, an 80s-inspired dance-pop, funk, and R&B set; debuted at number seven on the Billboard 200, went RIAA Platinum, and was revived by the 2018 #JusticeForGlitter campaign.

Glivenko–Cantelli theorem

The Glivenko–Cantelli theorem, or Glivenko–Cantelli lemma, states that the empirical distribution function converges uniformly to the true distribution function almost surely, proved by Valery Glivenko and Francesco Cantelli in 1933.

Gliwice

Gliwice (Gleiwitz), city with powiat rights in Silesian Voivodeship, Poland; 169,915 residents (2023). Medieval trade town on the Wrocław-Kraków route, Prussian industrial center, site of the 1939 Gliwice provocation, Polish since 1945.

GLM (model family)

GLM (General Language Model) is a family of large language models developed by the Chinese lab Zhipu AI, first released as an open bilingual model in 2022.

GLM open-weight releases

GLM open-weight releases are the publicly downloadable checkpoints in Zhipu AI's GLM large language model family, running from GLM-130B in October 2022 to GLM-5.3-Flash in 2026.

GLM-4

GLM-4 is a family of large language models released by the Chinese AI company Zhipu AI on January 16, 2024, as the fourth generation of its GLM line.

GLM-4-Voice

GLM-4-Voice is an open end-to-end speech-native conversational model released by Zhipu AI in October 2024, which understands and generates Chinese and English speech directly in one model.

GLM-4.5

GLM-4.5 is an open-weight Mixture-of-Experts large language model released by Z.ai (Zhipu AI) in July 2025, positioned for agentic workflows and shipped in 355B and 106B-parameter sizes under the MIT license.

GLM-4.5V (Zhipu vision models)

GLM-4.5V is an open-weight vision-language model released by Zhipu AI on August 11, 2025 under the MIT license, handling image, video, and document understanding with a 106B-parameter MoE architecture.

GLM-5

GLM-5 is a 744-billion-parameter open-weight Mixture-of-Experts large language model released by the Chinese AI lab Zhipu AI in February 2026, the first open-weights model to score 50 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index.

GLM-5.3-Flash

GLM-5.3-Flash, stealth-tested as "Ox Alpha", is an open-weight mixture-of-experts large language model released by Z.ai in August 2026, its first natively multimodal GLM-5 model and its cheapest capable coding model.

GLMLEVEL study

GLMLEVEL (GO-LEVEL) study: phase 4, open-label golimumab exposure-response study in 102 ulcerative colitis patients; defined trough-level targets of 3.8 μg/mL at induction and 2.4 μg/mL at maintenance for combined remission.

GLNG Pipeline (Australia)

The GLNG Pipeline is a 435 km natural gas pipeline in central Queensland, Australia, carrying coal seam gas to the GLNG LNG plant on Curtis Island.

glo (tobacco brand)

glo is a heated tobacco product brand owned by British American Tobacco, which heats rather than burns tobacco sticks and launched in Japan in 2016.

Glob (programming)

A glob, also called a glob pattern, is a wildcard notation for matching file names, using , ?, and brackets, implemented in shells, C, and Python.

Glob Herman

Glob Herman (Robert Herman) is a Marvel Comics mutant, created by Grant Morrison and Ethan Van Sciver, debuting in New X-Men #117 (2001). His transparent bio-paraffin body is flammable; he moved from Omega Gang delinquent to X-Men ally, distinct from the Hulk foe Glob.