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GraspNet
GraspNet, formally GraspNet-1Billion, is a large-scale benchmark dataset for general object grasping in robotics, introduced at CVPR 2020 with 97,280 RGB-D images and over one billion grasp poses.
Grass
Grass, also known as the grasses, is the flowering plant family Poaceae (Gramineae), with about 760 genera and 12,000 species worldwide, including the staple crops wheat, rice, and maize.
Grass (1925 film)
Grass: A Nation's Battle for Life (1925) is a silent American documentary by Merian C. Cooper, Ernest B. Schoedsack, and Marguerite Harrison following the Bakhtiari tribe's 48-day migration across Iran's Karun River and Zardeh Kuh.
Grass (풀잎들) (2018 film)
Grass (풀잎들, Pul-ip-deul) is a 2018 black-and-white South Korean drama by Hong Sang-soo, 66 minutes, starring Kim Min-hee as a café observer; premiered at Berlin Forum, 92% on Rotten Tomatoes.
Grass carp
Grass carp (Ctenopharyngodon idella), or white amur, is a large herbivorous Asian minnow introduced worldwide for aquatic weed control. Imported to the U.S. in 1963, it is established in the Mississippi basin and now regulated as invasive carp; triploid sterile fish are stocked for vegetation management.
Grass court
Grass court, also called lawn tennis court, a natural-turf tennis surface; the fastest, lowest-bouncing of the three court types, original surface of tennis (Wimbledon since 1877), now rare on tour and typically 100% perennial ryegrass.
Grass jelly
Grass jelly (仙草, cincau, เฉาก๊วย, sương sáo) is a black jelly dessert from South China made by boiling Platostoma palustre with starch and alkali; eaten across Asia as cubes, drinks, and toppings.
Grass Mud Horse (草泥马)
Grass Mud Horse (草泥马, caonima) is a 2009 Chinese internet meme: a fictional alpaca-like beast whose name puns on an obscenity, created to mock censorship and the 'harmonious society' policy via its river crab nemesis.
Grass on the Wayside
Grass on the Wayside (道草, Michikusa) is a 1915 novel by Natsume Sōseki, generally regarded as his only autobiographical novel, about a scholar's money disputes with his foster father.
Grass skiing
Grass skiing (グラススキー, Grasski) is alpine skiing on grass slopes using short caterpillar-track skis, invented in 1960s Germany by Josef Kaiser, FIS-recognized since 1985, with World Championships since 1979 and events in Super-G, giant slalom, slalom, and super combined.
Grass snake
Grass snake (Natrix helvetica), barred grass snake: a non-venomous western European natricine snake, split from Natrix natrix in 2017; Britain's largest reptile and only egg-laying snake, feeding on amphibians and fish.
Grass Valley (company)
Grass Valley is an American-Canadian broadcast technology company making production switchers, cameras, and the AMPP cloud platform for live television. Founded in 1959 in California, it is now headquartered in Montreal.
Grass Valley, California
Grass Valley is a city in western Nevada County, California, in the Sierra Nevada foothills, incorporated in 1860 and known for its Gold Rush heritage and the Empire Mine.
Grass Wonder (グラスワンダー)
Grass Wonder (グラスワンダー), American-bred Japanese racehorse (1995-2025) by Silver Hawk; two-time Arima Kinen winner, 1999 Takarazuka Kinen, rival of Special Week; sire of Screen Hero; Umamusume inspiration.
Grass: A Nation's Battle for Life
Grass: A Nation's Battle for Life is a 1925 American silent documentary in which Merian C. Cooper and Ernest B. Schoedsack filmed the Bakhtiari tribe's migration.
Grasse
Grasse, Alpes-Maritimes commune and chef-lieu in Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France; population 50,970 (2023). Known as the world perfume capital, with UNESCO-listed perfumery know-how since 2018.
Grasshopper
Grasshopper: herbivorous Orthoptera insect (suborder Caelifera, mainly family Acrididae, over 6,700 species) with jumping hind legs; locusts are swarming-phase grasshoppers; egg-nymph-adult life cycle, 8-10 year outbreak cycles.
Grasshopper Manufacture
Founded in 1998 by Goichi Suda, Grasshopper Manufacture Inc. is a Tokyo developer that created over 25 titles, including cult hits like Killer7 and No More Heroes.
Grasshopper optimization algorithm
The grasshopper optimization algorithm (GOA) is a population-based metaheuristic introduced in 2017 by Saremi, Mirjalili, and Lewis, modeling grasshopper swarming to solve continuous optimization problems.
Grassington
Grassington is a market town in Upper Wharfedale, Yorkshire Dales National Park, England, about 8 miles north of Skipton. Known for its cobbled square, Grassington Moor lead mining remains, scheduled monument 1018333, and as TV's Darrowby in All Creatures Great and Small.
Grassland
A grassland is a terrestrial ecosystem where grasses, sedges, and forbs dominate with few or no trees, known regionally as prairie, steppe, pampas, or veld.
Grassland Ecological Area (GEA)
Grassland Ecological Area (GEA), Ramsar site no. 1451, is a 65,000-hectare wetland complex in Merced County, California, designated 2 February 2005; the largest remaining contiguous freshwater wetland block in California, hosting hundreds of thousands of wintering waterbirds on the Pacific Flyway.
Grassmannian
The Grassmannian, also called the Grassmann manifold, is the space of k-dimensional linear subspaces of a vector space, fundamental to algebraic geometry and named for Hermann Grassmann.
Grassmarket
Grassmarket is a historic market square in Edinburgh's Old Town below the Castle, a market since 1477 and the city's place of execution from 1660 to 1784, including over 100 Covenanters in the Killing Time.
Grassroots
Grassroots: ordinary people in a society or organization rather than its leaders; also volunteer-run local organizing and leaderless, horizontal movements such as the Indignados and Occupy.
Grassroots (album)
Grassroots (album): second studio album by American rock band 311, released July 12, 1994 on Capricorn Records; 14 rap-rock, funk, and reggae tracks produced by Eddie Offord, distinct from albums of the same title by Pothead and Andrew Hill.
Grassy ELM
The grassy ELM regime is an operating regime in H-mode tokamak plasmas where large type-I ELM bursts are replaced by small, frequent edge instabilities, first observed on JT-60U.
Grat Beal Gebri
Grat Beʿal Gebri is a monumental multi-storey building complex at Yeha in the Tigray highlands of Ethiopia, built around 800 BC during the pre-Aksumite Dʿmt period.
Grateful (DJ Khaled album)
Grateful is DJ Khaled's tenth studio album, released June 23, 2017 on We The Best/Epic. Its 23 tracks, executively produced by Khaled's infant son Asahd, yielded Billboard 200 number one and the singles "I'm the One" and "Wild Thoughts."
Grateful Dead
Grateful Dead, American rock band formed 1965 in the San Francisco Bay Area, pioneers of live improvisation and the Deadhead fan culture; disbanded after Jerry Garcia's 1995 death, with offshoots like Dead & Company continuing.