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General Electricity Company of Libya

The General Electricity Company of Libya (الشركة العامة للكهرباء, GECOL) is Libya's state-owned utility, created in 1984 to run electricity generation, transmission, distribution, and water desalination.

General Fusion

General Fusion is a Canadian fusion energy company founded by physicist Michel Laberge in 2002, developing magnetized target fusion, which compresses magnetized plasma inside a liquid lithium liner.

General Intuition

General Intuition is an AI research startup founded in 2025 by Pim de Witte as a spin-out from Medal, building world and action models trained on gameplay video.

General Matter

General Matter, Inc., a California-based American uranium enrichment startup founded in 2024 and incubated at Founders Fund, is building a $1.5 billion enrichment facility in Paducah, Kentucky.

General Mobile Radio Service

The General Mobile Radio Service (GMRS) is a licensed FCC radio service using 462 and 467 MHz bands for short-distance two-way voice communication in the United States.

General Motors

General Motors, or GM, is an American automaker headquartered in Detroit, Michigan. Founded by William Durant in 1908, it sells vehicles under the Chevrolet, Buick, Cadillac, and GMC brands.

General Motors 60° V6 engine

The General Motors 60° V6 engine is an engine family with 60-degree cylinder banks produced from 1980 into the 2000s, starting as a 2.8-liter Chevrolet design.

General Motors Atlas engine

The General Motors Atlas engine family is a series of all-aluminum inline four-, five-, and six-cylinder engines that GM produced from the 2002 model year through 2012.

General Motors Delta platform

The General Motors Delta platform is a GM compact car architecture debuted in the 2003 Saturn Ion and engineered by Opel in Germany, used in the Chevrolet Cobalt and Cruze.

General Motors Epsilon platform

The General Motors Epsilon platform is a front-wheel-drive vehicle architecture developed mainly by Opel in Germany, debuting in the 2002 Opel Vectra and 2003 Saab 9-3.

General Motors EV1

The General Motors EV1, also known as the GM EV1, was a two-seat battery-electric car General Motors leased, never sold, in the United States from 1996 to 1999.

General Motors F platform

The General Motors F platform, known as the F-body, was a rear-wheel-drive automobile platform that carried the Chevrolet Camaro and Pontiac Firebird across four generations, from 1967 to 2002.

General Motors ignition switch recalls

The General Motors ignition switch recalls, also called the ignition switch scandal, were 2014 recalls of about 2.6 million small cars whose defective switches disabled airbags, causing 124 deaths.

General Motors J platform

The General Motors J platform, commonly called the J-body or J-car, was a front-wheel-drive compact platform GM produced from 1981 to 2005, chiefly in the United States.

General Motors LS-based small-block engine

The General Motors LS-based small-block engine, or Chevy LS, is a family of pushrod V8 engines introduced with the 1997 Chevrolet Corvette's 5.7 L LS1.

General Motors W platform

The General Motors W platform, known as the W-body, was a front-wheel-drive GM car architecture built from 1988 to 2016 for models like the Regal, Lumina, Grand Prix, and Impala.

General Motors Y platform

The General Motors Y platform, or Y-body, is a GM vehicle architecture used for the 1961–1963 Buick, Oldsmobile, and Pontiac senior compacts and the Chevrolet Corvette through 2019.

General Motors Zeta platform

The General Motors Zeta platform was a rear-wheel-drive architecture developed by GM's Australian subsidiary Holden, debuting with the 2006 VE Commodore and later underpinning the Chevrolet Camaro and Pontiac G8.

General of the Air Force

General of the Air Force is a five-star rank of the United States Air Force, held only by Henry H. "Hap" Arnold from 1949 until his death in 1950.

General Petroleum Company (Egypt)

General Petroleum Company (الشركة العامة للبترول), abbreviated GPC, is Egypt's first fully state-owned oil and gas producer, established in 1957 and owned by EGPC, ranking second among Egypt's oil producers.

General Post Office

The General Post Office was the UK state department that carried the mail from 1660 to 1969 and later ran the telegraph, telephone, and broadcasting services.

General Purpose Heat Source

The General Purpose Heat Source (GPHS) is a modular plutonium-238 fuel block, designed by Los Alamos National Laboratory, that supplies heat to spacecraft radioisotope power systems.

General radiotelephone operator license

The General Radiotelephone Operator License (GROL) is a commercial radio operator license issued by the FCC, created in 1981 to replace the First and Second Class licenses.

General Railway Signal

General Railway Signal Company, known as GRS, was an American manufacturer of railway signaling equipment in Rochester, New York, incorporated in 1904 and absorbed by Alstom in 1998.

General regression neural network

A general regression neural network (GRNN) is a memory-based neural network for regression, introduced by Donald F. Specht in 1991 as a neural-network form of kernel regression.

General Robotics (company)

General Robotics is an Israeli defense-technology company making lightweight remote weapon stations and teleoperated tactical robots, notably DOGO and PITBULL; SIG SAUER acquired it in 2023.

General Safety Regulation

The General Safety Regulation, known as GSR2, is a 2019 EU regulation mandating safety features like intelligent speed assistance and event data recorders in new vehicles.

General-Purpose AI Code of Practice

The General-Purpose AI Code of Practice, or GPAI Code of Practice, is a voluntary code the European Commission published in July 2025 to help AI providers comply with the EU AI Act.

General-purpose bomb

A general-purpose (GP) bomb is an air-dropped munition carrying 40 to 50 percent of its weight in high explosive, producing both blast and fragmentation effects.

General-purpose computing on graphics processing units

General-purpose computing on graphics processing units (GPGPU), or GPU computing, uses a graphics processor for non-graphics work like deep learning, scientific simulation, and dense linear algebra.