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Galerkin method
The Galerkin method, also known in Russia as the Bubnov–Galerkin method, reduces differential equations to finite algebraic systems and forms the backbone of the finite element method; Boris Galerkin formulated it in 1915.
Galero
Galero: the broad-brimmed red hat with tassels conferred on Catholic cardinals from 1245 by Innocent IV until Paul VI abolished it in 1969; now a heraldic emblem, green for bishops, black for priests.
Galessos
Galessos (Γαλήσσιος, also Galessus) was an ancient city on Syros in the Cyclades, at Galissas on the west coast; Barrington Atlas 60 A5, Pleiades 589790, Archaic-Classical settlement with a harbor and rare coins.
Galeterone
Galeterone (TOK-001, VN/124-1) is a steroidal CYP17A1 inhibitor, androgen receptor antagonist, and AR degrader developed for prostate cancer; its phase 3 ARMOR3-SV trial versus enzalutamide in AR-V7-positive metastatic CRPC stopped early and development was discontinued.
Galette
Galette: French term for flat round or freeform cakes; most notably the savory Breton buckwheat pancake (galette complète, galette saucisse) and the rustic pan-free pastry tart, plus the Epiphany galette des Rois.
Galeus melastomus
Galeus melastomus, the blackmouth catshark (Rafinesque, 1810), a deepwater Pentanchidae shark of the eastern Atlantic and Mediterranean, dark-mouthed, spotted, to 90 cm, oviparous, IUCN Least Concern.
Galfenol
Galfenol is an iron–gallium magnetostrictive alloy, discovered in 1999, that changes shape in response to a magnetic field while staying ductile and machinable like ordinary iron.
Galgo Español
Galgo Español (Spanish Greyhound, Lebrel Español): Spain's native sighthound, FCI Standard No. 285, Group 10, recognized 1971. Hare-hunting dog of ancient Asian sighthound descent, 62–70 cm males, runs about 60 km/h, calm at home, ancestor of the English Greyhound.
Galguduud
Galguduud (Somali: Gobolka Galguduud), also spelled Galgaduud, is a pastoral region of central Somalia with capital Dhuusamarreeb, part of the Galmudug federal state and bordered by Ethiopia and the Indian Ocean.
Galia Beer-Gabel
Galia Beer-Gabel is an Israeli venture investor and Managing Partner at Team8, appointed in November 2025 to lead fintech company-building from New York after six years developing the firm's fintech platform.
Galiano Island
Galiano Island is a Southern Gulf Island in the Strait of Georgia, BC, named 1859 for Spanish commander Dionisio Alcalá Galiano, formerly Kilmorey Island; forested, in the imperiled Coastal Douglas-fir zone, reached by ferry from Tsawwassen.
Galibri & Mavik
Galibri & Mavik is a Russian pop duo of Evgeny Trukhin and Alexander Fomenkov, best known for the 2021 TikTok hit «Федерико Феллини», which topped Yandex Music.
Galicia (Eastern Europe)
Galicia (Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria; Galicja, Галичина) was the largest Habsburg crownland, created in the 1772 first partition of Poland, home to Poles, Ruthenians/Ukrainians, and Jews, autonomous after 1867, dissolved in 1918.
Galicia (Spain)
Galicia (Galician: Galicia/Galiza) is an autonomous community in northwest Spain with four provinces, Galician-Spanish co-officiality, 2.71 million people, and an export-oriented economy led by automotive, textiles, and timber.
Galicia national football team
Galicia national football team (Selección de fútbol de Galicia, A Irmandiña), Galicia's regional selection in Spain; debuted 1922, revived 2005 with a 3-2 win over Uruguay, unbeaten until a 2024 loss to Panama; amateur side won the 2023 UEFA Regions' Cup.
Galician language
Galician (galego) is a Romance language of northwest Iberia, descended from Galician-Portuguese, co-official in Galicia with over two million habitual speakers, standardized in 1982 and now losing speakers to Spanish.
Galician Russophilia
Galician Russophilia (rusofily or moskvofily) was a sociopolitical movement among nineteenth-century Ruthenians in Austrian Galicia who considered themselves part of the Russian nation and dominated Galician institutions from 1848 until the 1880s.
Galician slaughter
The Galician slaughter (Polish: Rzeź galicyjska) was a peasant uprising in Austrian Galicia in February 1846, in which serfs killed over a thousand Polish nobles and officials.
Galician Soviet Socialist Republic
The Galician Soviet Socialist Republic was a short-lived Bolshevik state proclaimed in eastern Galicia on 15 July 1920 during the Polish-Soviet War, with its capital at Ternopil.
Galician-Volhynian Chronicle
The Galician-Volhynian Chronicle (Галицко-Волынская летопись) is an anonymous thirteenth-century Old Rus' chronicle narrating the Principality of Galicia-Volhynia from 1201 to 1291, preserved in the Hypatian Chronicle.
Galician–Volhynian succession wars (1187–1245)
The Galician–Volhynian succession wars (Галицко-Волынские усобицы) were struggles for the Galician land and Volhynia in South-Western Rus' from 1187 to 1245, ending when Daniil Romanovich won the battle of Yaroslav.
Galictis vittata
Galictis vittata, the greater grison (hurón grande), is a mustelid from Mexico to central South America, larger than its congener G. cuja, with a metaconid on m1, short tail, and IUCN Least Concern status.
Galidesivir
Galidesivir (BCX4430, immucillin A) is an investigational adenosine nucleoside analog antiviral inhibiting viral RNA polymerase, active against 20+ RNA viruses including Marburg and Ebola, in FDA Animal Rule development for Marburg.
Galidor
Galidor: Defenders of the Outer Dimension, LEGO's 2002 action figure line and original Fox Kids/YTV TV series with limb-swapping 'glinching' figures; discontinued 2003, tied to LEGO's near-bankruptcy.
Galil DMC motion controller
The Galil DMC motion controller is a family of digital motion controllers from Galil Motion Control, founded in 1983, that commands servo and stepper motors.
Galilaei (Martian crater)
Galilaei is a 137-km-wide impact crater on Mars at 5.63°N, 333.0°E in the Oxia Palus quadrangle, named for Galileo like its lunar counterpart, with chaos terrain and paleolake deposits on its floor.
Galilean group
The Galilean group, also called the Galilei group, is the ten-parameter Lie group of transformations between inertial reference frames in Newtonian mechanics, encoding rotations, translations, boosts, and time shifts.
Galilean invariance
Galilean invariance, also called Galilean relativity, is the principle that Newton's laws take the same form in every inertial frame, connected by the Galilean transformation.
Galilean moons
The Galilean moons, also called the Galilean satellites or Medicea Sidera, are Jupiter's four largest moons, Io, Europa, Ganymede, and Callisto, discovered by Galileo Galilei in January 1610 and believed to hold subsurface oceans.
Galilean transformation
The Galilean transformation, also called the Galilean boost, is the classical mechanics coordinate transformation relating inertial frames moving at constant relative velocity, with time universal, and it fails for light, requiring Lorentz transformations.