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Gross vehicle weight rating
Gross vehicle weight rating (GVWR) is the maximum loaded weight a manufacturer assigns a vehicle, on its certification label; at 10,001 pounds or more it triggers federal commercial safety rules.
Gross world product
Gross world product (GWP) is the combined gross domestic product of all economies in the world, measured by national statistics agencies under the System of National Accounts.
Gross-Gerau
Groß-Gerau (Gross-Gerau), Hesse, Germany: Roman fort and vicus on the right Rhine bank south of the Main; fort Biebelslache c. 40-70 AD, Auf Esch camp village with about 760 graves, and the possibly Roman Landgraben canal.
Gross–Neveu model
The Gross–Neveu model is a quantum field theory of massless Dirac fermions interacting through a four-fermion contact term, introduced by David Gross and André Neveu in 1974.
Gross–Pitaevskii equation
The Gross–Pitaevskii equation is a nonlinear Schrödinger equation describing the macroscopic wave function of a dilute Bose–Einstein condensate, developed independently by Eugene Gross and Lev Pitaevskii in the early 1960s.
Großaspach
SG Sonnenhof Großaspach, the "Dorfklub" from Aspach, Baden-Württemberg: football club founded 25 August 1994 by merger of SpVgg Großaspach and FC Sonnenhof Kleinaspach; 3. Liga member 2014-2019 and from 2026, home at the WIRmachenDRUCK Arena.
Große Freiheit 36
Große Freiheit 36 is a concert club on the Große Freiheit street in Hamburg's St. Pauli district, near the Reeperbahn, operating since 1985 and among the city's best-known venues.
Große Olympiaschanze (Garmisch-Partenkirchen)
The Große Olympiaschanze is a ski jumping hill in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany, built for the 1936 Winter Olympics and today hosting the New Year's jump of the Four Hills Tournament.
Grosse Pointe
Grosse Pointe: five separate municipalities (Park, City, Farms, Woods, Shores) on Lake St. Clair northeast of Detroit, the 'Gold Coast'; French ribbon farms turned auto-elite estates; ~45,600 residents, shared school district, 2024 average home price above $500,000.
Grosse Pointe Blank
Grosse Pointe Blank is a 1997 American black comedy directed by George Armitage, starring John Cusack as a hit man attending his high school reunion.
Grosse Pointe Garden Society
Grosse Pointe Garden Society, NBC dark comedy-drama by Jenna Bans and Bill Krebs (Good Girls creators), premiered February 23, 2025; stars Fumero, King, Rappaport, Robb as garden club members covering up a murder; canceled after one season.
Grosse Pointe, Michigan
Grosse Pointe, Michigan: a 1.06-square-mile Lake St. Clair city in Wayne County, one of five Pointes bordering Detroit; 5,678 residents (2020), median household income $158,853, incorporated as a village in 1879.
Grosser Preis von Baden
The Grosser Preis von Baden is a Group 1 flat horse race for three-year-olds and up over 2,400 meters at Iffezheim near Baden-Baden, Germany, held annually since 1858.
Großer Saal, Musikverein
The Großer Saal, or Golden Hall, is the main concert hall of Vienna's Musikverein, opened in 1870 and home of the Vienna Philharmonic's annual New Year's Concert.
Grossglockner
Grossglockner (German: Großglockner), also known as Veliki Klek, is at 3,798 meters the highest mountain in Austria, first climbed in 1800, with the Pasterze glacier at its foot.
Grossprüfening
Grossprüfening (Großprüfening), a district of Regensburg, Bavaria, site of a Roman fortlet, vicus, and 4th-century burgus near the Naab-Danube confluence, possibly ancient Reginum, a UNESCO Danube Limes component.
Grossromstedt
Großromstedt (Grossromstedt), a large Elbe-Germanic cremation cemetery "Die Schanze" near Jena, Thuringia, excavated 1907–1913 with over 600 graves; namesake of the Großromstedt horizon and culture, linked to the Hermunduri.
Großsiedlung Siemensstadt
Großsiedlung Siemensstadt (Ringsiedlung), a 1929–1934 Berlin modernist housing estate by Scharoun, Gropius, Häring, Bartning, Forbat, and Henning under Martin Wagner; 1,379 apartments, ribbon development, UNESCO World Heritage since 2008.
Großstadtlyrik
Großstadtlyrik, or big-city poetry, is German-language poetry about life in the modern metropolis, emerging with Naturalism in the 1880s and peaking in Expressionism between 1905 and 1925.
Grossular
Grossular is a calcium aluminum silicate mineral of the garnet group, the most varicolored of the six common garnets, including gem varieties hessonite and tsavorite.
Grosvenor Coal Mine
The Grosvenor Coal Mine is an underground coking coal mine near Moranbah in Queensland's Bowen Basin, developed by Anglo American and first producing coal in 2016.
Grosvenor Group
Grosvenor Group is the privately held international property company owned through trusts of the Duke of Westminster, holding £8.2bn of urban property across 11 countries, including 300 acres of Mayfair and Belgravia.
Grosvenor House
Grosvenor House names several buildings: a Grade I 1791 John Eveleigh house in Bath, a Grade II early C18 house in Richmond, a Grade II Westerham house, the former Park Lane mansion now the Grosvenor House Hotel, and a 1960 precast Winnipeg apartment block.
Grote Kerk, Haarlem
Grote of St.-Bavokerk (Grote Kerk), Haarlem's late Gothic cross-basilica on the Grote Markt: 78 m wooden crossing tower, 45 m Brick Gothic choir, 1738 Müller organ played by Handel and Mozart, 400 gravestones including Frans Hals.
Grote Reber
Grote Reber was an American radio engineer who, working alone after Karl Jansky's 1933 discovery, built the world's first radio telescope in 1937 and made the first radio maps of the sky.
Grotech Ventures
Grotech Ventures is a Vienna, Virginia venture capital firm founded in 1984 that invests in early-stage B2B software companies with initial checks of $500,000 to $5 million.
Grotesco criollo
Grotesco criollo, also called grotesco argentino, is an Argentine theater genre arising in 1920s and 1930s Buenos Aires, created by Armando Discépolo with works like Mateo and Stéfano.
Grotesqqque
Grotesqqque (グロテスク, Gurotesuku) is a 2026 Japanese anime anthology film written and directed by Atsushi Nishigori, produced by CloverWorks, with three segments ÆLIENS, 4649GIRL, and NOCTURNE: NUIT GROTESQUE, 104 minutes, released in Japan November 6, 2026.
Grotesque
The grotesque, also called Grottesche, is an ornamental style of ancient Roman origin, combining scrolling plants, figures, and architecture; it was named for the grottoes of Nero's Golden House, rediscovered in 1488.
Grotesque (2009 film)
Grotesque (グロテスク) is a 2009 Japanese splatter horror film by Kōji Shiraishi about a couple, Kazuo and Aki, kidnapped and tortured by a doctor; the BBFC refused it an 18 certificate, banning it in the UK.