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Glasgow Financial Alliance for Net Zero
The Glasgow Financial Alliance for Net Zero (GFANZ) is a private-sector coalition of financial firms, launched by Mark Carney in April 2021 to mobilize capital for net zero by 2050.
Glasgow Haskell Compiler
The Glasgow Haskell Compiler (GHC) is an open-source compiler and interactive environment for Haskell, begun at Glasgow in 1989 and used by nearly all Haskell programmers.
Glasgow Shields Road TMD
Glasgow Shields Road TMD, also called Shields Depot, is a railway electric traction maintenance depot in Glasgow, Scotland, opened in 1967 to serve the electrified suburban network.
Glasgow Subway
The Glasgow Subway, also called the Glasgow Underground and nicknamed the Clockwork Orange, is a 10 mile underground metro loop in Glasgow, Scotland, opened in 1896.
Glashallen
Glashallen (Glass Hall) is the 130-metre glass-and-steel terminal at Malmö Central Station, Sweden, built 2008–2010 by NCC for Jernhusen to link the station with the City Tunnel's underground Malmö C Nedre platforms; inaugurated 1 November 2010, with a stainless steel wire-supported glass facade and the 2013 Malmö urban planning prize.
Glass cockpit
A glass cockpit is an aircraft flight deck using computer-driven electronic displays instead of analog gauges, standard on commercial, military, and general aviation aircraft since the 1980s.
Glass fiber reinforced concrete
Glass fiber reinforced concrete, also called GRC, is a cementitious composite in which alkali-resistant glass fibers are dispersed in fine mortar, producing thin, strong, lightweight cladding panels and architectural elements.
Glass House
The Glass House, also known as the Philip Johnson Glass House, is a glass-and-steel residence in New Canaan, Connecticut, designed by architect Philip Johnson and completed in 1949.
Glass insulator
A glass insulator is a glass component that electrically isolates and mechanically supports the conductors of overhead telegraph, telephone, and power lines, usually in cap-and-pin disc form.
Glass ionomer cement
Glass ionomer cement is a dental material, first described in 1971, that sets by an acid-base reaction between polyacrylic acid and fluoroaluminosilicate glass and releases fluoride.
Glass-forming ability
Glass-forming ability is a measure of how readily a liquid solidifies into an amorphous glass rather than crystallizing on cooling, quantified by the critical cooling rate and critical casting thickness.
Glass-glass module
A glass-glass module, also called a double-glass module, is a photovoltaic module whose solar cells are sealed between two sheets of glass instead of a polymer backsheet.
Glasses
Glasses, also called eyeglasses or spectacles, are frames holding lenses worn before the eyes to correct refractive errors, protect the eyes, or both, invented in thirteenth-century Italy.
Glassomer
Glassomer is a German technology for shaping high-purity fused silica glass like a polymer, molding or 3D printing a powder-binder composite, then heat-treating it to transparent glass.
GlassPoint Solar
GlassPoint Solar is an American company based in Fremont, California, that builds parabolic mirrors inside greenhouses to produce steam, originally for oil recovery and now for industrial heat.
Glaston (company)
Glaston Corporation, also known as Glaston Oyj Abp, is a Finnish technology company headquartered in Helsinki that makes machines and services for flat glass processing since 1870.
Glastonbury Abbey
Glastonbury Abbey, also known as Glastonbury Cathedral, is a ruined medieval Benedictine monastery in Glastonbury, Somerset, England, renowned as the legendary burial place of King Arthur, dissolved in 1539.
Glaucio H. Paulino
Glaucio H. Paulino is a structural and computational engineer and Princeton professor, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2021 for contributions to topology optimization and origami engineering.
Gleam (programming language)
Gleam is a statically typed functional programming language created by Louis Pilfold that compiles to Erlang's BEAM virtual machine and to JavaScript, reaching version 1.0 in March 2024.
Glean
Glean is an American enterprise software company selling workplace search and an AI assistant, founded by Arvind Jain and valued at $7.2 billion by 2025.
Glean Technologies
Glean Technologies is an American company in Palo Alto, California, founded in 2019 by Arvind Jain, whose AI platform indexes company data for workplace search, assistance, and agents.
Glen Canyon Dam
Glen Canyon Dam is a 710-foot-high concrete-arch dam on the Colorado River in northern Arizona that impounds Lake Powell, the second-largest reservoir in the United States.
Glen T. Daigger
Glen T. Daigger is an environmental engineer specializing in biological wastewater treatment who spent 35 years at CH2M HILL and joined the National Academy of Engineering in 2003.
Glenda (tunnel boring machine)
Glenda is the name given to a tunnel boring machine, following the tunnelling tradition of naming such machines after women, though no published record verifies her project or fate.
Glendalough
Glendalough (gleann dá locha, glen of the two lakes) is a Wicklow valley holding an early medieval Irish monastery founded by St Kevin in the late 6th century, with round tower, gatehouse, and seven churches.
Glenfiddich
Glenfiddich, Gaelic for valley of the deer, is a Speyside single malt Scotch whisky distillery in Dufftown, Scotland, founded by William Grant, with first spirit in 1887.
Glenfinnan Viaduct
The Glenfinnan Viaduct is a curved 21-arch concrete railway viaduct in the Scottish Highlands, built from 1897 to 1901 and known for Harry Potter films.
Glenlivet Oil and Gas Field
Glenlivet is a gas and condensate field in the Faroe-Shetland Basin about 70 km northwest of the Shetland Islands, discovered in 2009 and producing since 2017.
Glenmorangie distillery
Glenmorangie is a single malt Scotch whisky distillery in Tain, in the Scottish Highlands, founded in 1843 and known for its tall pot stills and cask finishing.
Glenn A. Schurman
Glenn A. Schurman (1922–2010) was an American mechanical engineer at Chevron who led the Ninian Central Platform project and was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1980.