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Gato

Gato is a generalist AI agent released by DeepMind in May 2022, a single transformer that plays games, captions images, and controls a robot arm.

Gato-class submarine

The Gato-class submarine was a class of United States Navy fleet submarines, built from 1941, that formed the backbone of the American submarine campaign against Japan in World War II.

Gator (film)

Gator (1976) is Burt Reynolds's directorial debut and sequel to White Lightning, starring Reynolds as moonshine runner Gator McKlusky fighting corrupt boss Bama McCall (Jerry Reed) in Dunston County; 115 minutes, United Artists, $11 million domestic.

Gator Bowl Stadium

Gator Bowl Stadium was Jacksonville, Florida's football stadium, built 1927 as Fairfield Stadium, renamed for the Gator Bowl game hosted since 1946, and razed in 1994 for the Jaguars' EverBank Stadium site.

Gatorade

Gatorade (Gatorade Thirst Quencher), invented 1965 at the University of Florida by Robert Cade's team and owned by PepsiCo since 2000, is the original American sports drink, historically holding about 80% of the US sports drink market.

Gatorade Player of the Year awards

Gatorade Player of the Year awards: annual US high school sports honors since 1985, naming state winners in 12 sports across 50 states and DC, then 12 national winners judged on athletics, academics, and character.

GatorTron

GatorTron is a family of large clinical language models from the University of Florida and NVIDIA, trained on over 90 billion words of text, mostly de-identified clinical notes.

Gatot Soebroto

Gatot Soebroto (also written Gatot Subroto) was an Indonesian army general who crushed the 1948 Communist rebellion at Madiun and was named a National Hero in 1962.

Gatsby (JavaScript framework)

Gatsby is a React-based open source web framework with a GraphQL data layer, created by Kyle Mathews in 2015 and owned by Netlify since 2023.

Gatta Kusthi (கட்டா குஸ்தி)

Gatta Kusthi (கட்டா குஸ்தி), also Matti Kusthi in Telugu, is a 2022 Tamil sports comedy drama by Chella Ayyavu starring Vishnu Vishal and Aishwarya Lekshmi as a chauvinist husband and his secretly champion-wrestler wife; released 2 December 2022, streamed on Netflix from 1 January 2023, with a 2026 sequel.

Gatta Kusthi 2

Gatta Kusthi 2 is a 2026 Tamil sports comedy-drama sequel to Gatta Kusthi, directed by Chella Ayyavu, starring Vishnu Vishal and Aishwarya Lekshmi as Veera and Keerthi; released July 3, 2026, earning about Rs 55 crore worldwide and streaming on Netflix.

Gattaca

Gattaca (1997) is Andrew Niccol's dystopian science fiction film starring Ethan Hawke, Uma Thurman, and Jude Law, about an 'in-valid' who assumes a 'valid's' DNA identity to join a space program; a box-office disappointment that became a canonical bioethics reference.

Gattermann reaction

The Gattermann reaction, also called the Gattermann aldehyde synthesis, is an organic reaction that formylates aromatic rings using hydrogen cyanide, hydrogen chloride, and a Lewis acid catalyst.

Gatun Lake

Gatun Lake (Lago Gatún) is an artificial lake in Panama formed in 1913 as the central part of the Panama Canal, 26 meters above sea level.

Gatun Locks

The Gatun Locks are a three-step flight of paired chambers on the Atlantic side of the Panama Canal, lifting ships 85 feet from sea level to Gatun Lake.

Gatwick Airport

Gatwick Airport, marketed as London Gatwick, is an international airport about 40 miles south of London in West Sussex, England, and the second-busiest airport in the United Kingdom.

Gatwick Express

Gatwick Express is a non-stop airport rail service between London Victoria and Gatwick Airport, established in 1984, running twice per hour in about 31 minutes, with extensions to Brighton.

GATX

GATX, formerly the General American Transportation Corporation, is an American railcar leasing company in Chicago founded in 1898, which also leases aircraft spare engines through a Rolls-Royce joint venture.

Gatze Lettinga

Gatze Lettinga was a Dutch environmental engineer who co-invented the UASB reactor for wastewater treatment at Wageningen University and declined to patent it, helping the technology spread to thousands of plants worldwide.

GAU-12 Equalizer

The GAU-12 Equalizer is a five-barrel, 25 mm Gatling-type rotary cannon developed by General Electric, installed on the AV-8B Harrier II and the AC-130U gunship.

GAU-19

The GAU-19, originally named GECAL 50, is an American electrically driven three-barrel Gatling heavy machine gun in .50 BMG caliber, developed by General Electric and mounted on helicopters, vehicles, and ships.

GAU-8 Avenger

The GAU-8 Avenger is a 30 mm seven-barrel Gatling-style autocannon built by General Electric as the primary armament of the US Air Force's A-10 Thunderbolt II.

Gaua (film)

Gaua (The Night) is a 2025 Basque-language folk horror film by Paul Urkijo Alijo, his third feature after Errementari and Irati. Set in 17th-century Basque mountains during Inquisition witch hunts, Kattalin flees her husband and meets three storytelling women; premiered at Sitges 2025.

Gauahar Khan

Gauahar Khan (Gauhar Zafer Khan), Indian actress and model born 1983 in Pune; Femina Miss India 2002 finalist, film debut Rocket Singh (2009), Chand Bibi in Ishaqzaade, and winner of Bigg Boss 7 (2013).

Gauche effect

The gauche effect is a stereoelectronic phenomenon in organic chemistry where a molecule with adjacent polar bonds, such as 1,2-difluoroethane, adopts a gauche conformation despite the expected anti arrangement.

Gaucher's disease

Gaucher's disease (Gaucher disease) is a rare autosomal recessive lysosomal storage disorder caused by GBA1 variants and glucocerebrosidase deficiency, with types 1, 2, and 3, treated by enzyme replacement or substrate reduction therapy.

Gaucho

Gaucho: nomadic horseman and cattle herder of the Argentine pampas, Uruguay, and southern Brazil (17th–19th centuries), counterpart of the vaquero; famous for the facón, boleadoras, mate, and the poem Martín Fierro, and now a national symbol kept alive by festivals and traditionalist centers.

Gaucho (album)

Gaucho is Steely Dan's seventh studio album, released November 21, 1980, its last until 2000. A two-year, reportedly most-expensive-ever production marked by a tape erasure, Becker's accident, and the Keith Jarrett credit dispute.

Gaucho literature

Gaucho literature, or literatura gauchesca, is a 19th-century poetic genre of Argentina and Uruguay in which educated urban writers imitate the speech and worldview of the gaucho.

Gauda (Numidian king)

Gauda was king of Numidia in North Africa from 105 to 88 BC, a half-brother of Jugurtha whom the Romans installed after Jugurtha's defeat in the Jugurthine War.