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Gallagher index
The Gallagher index, or least squares index (LSq), measures electoral disproportionality between party vote shares and seat shares, devised by Michael Gallagher (1991) as a middle ground between the Rae and Loosemore-Hanby indices; it is the standard measure in comparative electoral studies.
Gallamine
Gallamine, marketed as the triethiodide salt Flaxedil, is a synthetic non-depolarizing neuromuscular blocking agent introduced in 1946 to relax skeletal muscle during general anesthesia, withdrawn after causing pronounced tachycardia.
Gallanediyl
Gallanediyl is a monovalent gallium compound of the type RGa, the gallium analog of a carbene, with a lone pair and vacant p orbital on gallium.
Gallant (singer)
Gallant (Christopher Gallant, born 1991) is an American alternative R&B singer known for his piercing falsetto. His Grammy-nominated debut Ology (2016) was followed by Sweet Insomnia, Neptune, sneek, and Zinc.
Gallants (打擂台)
Gallants (打擂台) is a 2010 Hong Kong action comedy directed by Derek Kwok and Clement Cheng, produced by Gordon Lam and invested by Andy Lau. It won Best Film at the 30th Hong Kong Film Awards and stars Teddy Robin, Bruce Leung, and Chen Kuan-tai.
Gallardet Dolmen
Gallardet Dolmen (Dolmen du Pouget, Dolmen du Pas de Gallardet) is a large Neolithic passage tomb at Le Pouget, Hérault, France, built 3500–2800 BC: 12 m long, dry-stone chamber with three capstones, oven-door entrance stone, restored 1977.
Gallarus Oratory
Gallarus Oratory, near Ballydavid on the Dingle Peninsula, County Kerry, is Ireland's best-preserved dry-stone corbelled chapel, boat-shaped, roof intact, one of three such churches, date disputed between 8th and 12th centuries.
Gallatin County, Montana, United States
Gallatin County, Montana, county seat Bozeman, named for Albert Gallatin; one of Montana's nine original 1865 counties, fastest-growing in the state, 128,740 residents in 2025, home to Montana State University.
Gallatin Fossil Plant
Gallatin Fossil Plant, also called the Gallatin Steam Plant, is a coal-fired power station on the Cumberland River near Gallatin, Tennessee, operated by the Tennessee Valley Authority.
Gallatin Point Capital Partners
Gallatin Point Capital is a financial-services-focused private investment firm based in Greenwich, Connecticut, co-founded by Matthew Botein and Lee Sachs, whose Fund III raised over $1.1 billion by 2026.
Gallaudet University
Gallaudet University, chartered in 1864 in Washington, D.C., is the world's only liberal arts university for deaf and hard of hearing students, teaching bilingually in ASL and English; founded as the Columbia Institution, renamed Gallaudet College in 1894, a Carnegie R2 research university since 2019.
Gallavich!
"Gallavich!" is the season 10 finale of the American Shameless (Showtime, January 26, 2020), written and directed by John Wells, in which Ian Gallagher and Mickey Milkovich marry despite Terry Milkovich's sabotage; the title is the fandom's portmanteau for the couple.
Gallbladder
Gallbladder: pear-shaped bile-storage organ under the liver, 7-10 cm, holding 30-50 mL bile released via CCK. Gallstones affect 10-15% of Americans; removal (cholecystectomy) is common and survivable.
Gallbladder neuroendocrine tumor
Gallbladder neuroendocrine tumor (GB-NEN, gallbladder NET/NEC): a rare neuroendocrine cancer, about 0.5% of NENs and 2.1% of gallbladder tumors, diagnosed by CgA/synaptophysin immunohistochemistry, usually advanced at presentation.
Galle
Galle (ගාල්ල, காலி) is a southwest Sri Lankan port city, capital of the Southern Province, home to the UNESCO-listed Dutch-built Galle Fort (inscribed 1988) and governed by Galle Municipal Council.
Galle District
Galle District, Southern Province, Sri Lanka; capital Galle city. 1,097,372 residents (2024 census, rank 7), 1,651.6 km², 19 DS divisions, cinnamon and tourism economy, Galle Fort UNESCO site.
Galle Fort
Galle Fort, the Old Town of Galle and its Fortifications, is a walled colonial town on Sri Lanka's southwest coast, founded by the Portuguese in 1588, expanded by the Dutch (walls of 1663), and taken by the British in 1796; UNESCO World Heritage site since 1988.
Gallé glass
Gallé glass is the Art Nouveau art glass of French designer Émile Gallé (1846–1904) of Nancy, made in layered cameo-cut glass decorated with botanical and insect subjects.
Galleon
A galleon is a large three-masted, square-rigged sailing ship of the 1500s to 1700s, developed from the caravel and carrack and used by European powers, especially Spain, as merchant ship and warship.
Galleria Borghese
Galleria Borghese, also called Borghese Gallery, is Rome's state art museum in the Villa Borghese Pinciana, founded on Cardinal Scipione Borghese's collection, with Bernini sculptures, Caravaggios, the 1807 sale of antiquities to the Louvre, and 1902 state purchase.
Galleria dell'Accademia
The Galleria dell'Accademia (Galleria dell'Accademia di Firenze), a Florence state museum at Via Ricasoli 58/60 founded in 1784, holds Michelangelo's David and the world's largest Michelangelo sculpture collection, nearly two million annual visitors.
Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II
The Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II, also known as the Galleria Victor Emmanuel, is a monumental shopping arcade in Milan linking Piazza del Duomo with Piazza della Scala under a glass dome.
Gallery car
Gallery car is a bilevel commuter railroad passenger car, first constructed by the Budd Company for the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad in 1950, and is still used on Chicago commuter services.
Galley
A galley is a long, low warship propelled primarily by oars, with sails lowered before battle, dominating Mediterranean naval warfare from Pharaonic Egypt to the early 1600s.
Galley slave
Galley slave: a person forced to row an oar-powered warship, mainly in the early modern Mediterranean. Also called forzati, galeotti, kürek servitude. Mixed slaves, convicts, and free rowers; ended with the shift to sail.
Gallhammer
Gallhammer is an all-female Japanese blackened crust trio formed in Tokyo in 2003, blending Hellhammer-style black metal, UK crust punk, and doom; signed to Peaceville Records in 2006.
Gallia Belgica
Gallia Belgica, also called Belgica, was a Roman province created by Augustus around 22 BCE in northeastern Gaul, covering modern Belgium, Luxembourg, northeast France and parts of the Netherlands and Germany, with capital Reims then Trier, split under Diocletian into Belgica I and II.
Gallia family
Gallia family: asteroid family in the central main belt named for (148) Gallia; 182 known S-type members, age about 630 Myr, and a leptokurtic ejection velocity distribution reshaped by the s − sV secular resonance with Vesta.
Gallia Lugdunensis
Gallia Lugdunensis: one of the three Gallic provinces created by Augustus around 27 BC, capital Lugdunum (Lyon), founded 43 BC by Plancus; roughly Caesar's Celtica, lost capital rank to Trier under Diocletian.
Gallia Narbonensis
Gallia Narbonensis, also Gallia Transalpina or simply Provincia, was Rome's first transalpine province in southern France, conquered 125–118 BCE, capital Narbo Martius, a senatorial province deeply romanized and famed for viticulture.