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Gachsaran oil field

The Gachsaran oil field (گچساران) is a giant onshore oil and gas field in Khuzestan province, southwestern Iran, discovered in 1928 and developed into one of the country's most important oilfields.

Gackpoid (がくっぽいど)

Gackpoid, also known as がくっぽいど, is a Japanese singing voice synthesizer sold by Internet Co., Ltd., built on Yamaha's VOCALOID engine from recordings of singer Gackt.

Gada (mace)

The gada (गदा) is a South Asian mace or club with a heavy round head, used as a weapon and as a strength-training tool in Indian wrestling.

Gadara Aqueduct

The Gadara Aqueduct, known in Arabic as the Qanat Fir'aun, was a Roman aqueduct about 170 km long that carried spring water to Gadara in northern Jordan.

Gadarwara Super Thermal Power Project

The Gadarwara Super Thermal Power Project is a coal-fired power station operated by NTPC in Narsinghpur district, Madhya Pradesh, India, with two 800 MW units.

Gadget

A gadget is a small device with a particular purpose and an element of novelty, from kitchen tools to smartphones; the word dates to 1850s sailors' slang.

Gadolinia fuel

Gadolinia fuel is uranium dioxide nuclear fuel with gadolinium oxide homogeneously mixed in as a burnable neutron absorber, holding down excess reactivity in light water reactors.

Gaff rig

The gaff rig is a sailing rig with a four-sided mainsail whose head is supported by a spar called the gaff, dominant for over 250 years.

Gafgyt

Gafgyt, also known as Bashlite, is a family of Linux malware, first observed in 2014, that infects IoT devices and routers and uses them for DDoS attacks.

Gag

A gag is either the pharyngeal reflex that protects the throat from foreign objects or a device that fills the mouth, used in surgery, dentistry, and consensual BDSM.

GAGAN

GAGAN (GPS Aided Geo Augmented Navigation) is India's Satellite-Based Augmentation System, jointly developed by the Airports Authority of India and ISRO with Raytheon and fully operational since 2015.

Gaganyaan (गगनयान)

Gaganyaan (गगनयान), also called the ISRO Orbital Vehicle, is India's human spaceflight program, announced in 2018, to fly three astronauts on a three-day low Earth orbit mission.

Gaggenau

Gaggenau is a German manufacturer of luxury built-in kitchen appliances, including ovens, combi-steam ovens, cooktops, and refrigeration, founded as an ironworks in 1683 and a BSH Hausgeräte subsidiary since 1995.

Gaggia

Gaggia, also known as Gaggia S.p.A., is an Italian espresso machine manufacturer founded in Milan in 1948 by Achille Gaggia, whose pressure brewing produced modern crema-topped espresso.

GAIA (General AI Assistants benchmark)

GAIA is a benchmark of real-world assistant questions released in 2023 by Meta AI and Hugging Face researchers, where humans scored 92% versus GPT-4's 15%.

Gaia (spacecraft)

Gaia is a European Space Agency space observatory for astrometry, launched in 2013 to orbit the Sun-Earth L2 point and map nearly two billion stars in the Milky Way.

GAIA (Wayve driving world model)

GAIA (Generative AI for Autonomy) is a family of generative video world models built by autonomous driving company Wayve, first introduced in 2023 to simulate driving footage for testing driving policies.

GAIA-2

GAIA-2 is a controllable generative world model for autonomous driving released by Wayve in March 2025, generating up to five consistent camera streams for synthetic data and safety validation.

Gaia-X

Gaia-X is a European initiative for federated data and cloud infrastructure, launched by France and Germany in 2019 and run by a Brussels not-for-profit association with over 300 members.

GAIL

GAIL (India) Limited, founded in 1984 as Gas Authority of India Limited, is a state-owned natural gas company in New Delhi that operates India's largest gas pipeline network.

Gain (electronics)

Gain, also called amplifier gain or audio gain, is the ratio of an amplifier's output signal magnitude to its input signal magnitude, a dimensionless ratio almost always expressed in decibels.

Gain clamping

Gain clamping, also called gain pinning, holds an optical amplifier's gain fixed, often stabilizing erbium-doped fiber amplifiers as WDM channels change; first proposed in 1991.

Gain flattening filter

A gain flattening filter, also called a gain-equalizing filter, is a passive optical filter that equalizes the gain of optical amplifiers, chiefly EDFAs, in wavelength-division multiplexed systems.

Gain margin

Gain margin is a control-systems measure of how much a feedback loop's gain can increase before the closed-loop system becomes unstable, usually expressed in decibels.

Gain scheduling

Gain scheduling is a control engineering technique that controls nonlinear or time-varying systems with a family of linear controllers whose gains adjust automatically with measured scheduling variables.

Gait phase detection

Gait phase detection identifies the phase of the walking cycle a person or legged robot is in, distinguishing stance from swing and locating heel strike and toe off.

Gait Trainer GT I

The Gait Trainer GT I is a stationary electromechanical gait rehabilitation machine in which a harnessed patient stands on two driven footplates simulating walking, developed by Drs. Stefan Hesse and Dietmar Uhlenbrock in Berlin.

Gaiwan

A gaiwan (盖碗, "lidded bowl") is a Chinese three-piece lidded tea bowl, developed in the Ming dynasty, popular during the Qing, and widely used for gongfu tea brewing.

Galactic cosmic ray shielding problem

The galactic cosmic ray shielding problem is the difficulty of protecting astronauts from galactic cosmic rays in deep space, a principal health constraint on missions to the Moon and Mars.

Galactica

Galactica was a large language model for science developed by Meta AI, released in November 2022 and withdrawn after three days of criticism over confident fabrications and invented citations.