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Global Solar Atlas

The Global Solar Atlas (GSA) is a free, web-based World Bank tool, launched in January 2017, offering solar resource maps and photovoltaic power calculations worldwide, with data developed by Solargis.

Global Steel Climate Council

The Global Steel Climate Council (GSCC) is a non-profit coalition of steel producers and stakeholders that maintains the Steel Climate Standard, a technology-neutral framework for reducing steelmaking emissions.

Global surveillance

Global surveillance is the mass monitoring of communications and personal data across borders by states, built on Five Eyes signals intelligence and exposed by Edward Snowden's 2013 disclosures.

Global Symposium for Regulators

The Global Symposium for Regulators (GSR) is an annual conference organized by the ITU that brings together national telecom regulators, held since 2000 and concluding with best practice guidelines.

Global Technical Regulation

A Global Technical Regulation, formally a UN Global Technical Regulation (UN GTR), is a harmonized technical regulation for wheeled vehicles, equipment, and parts under the 1998 UN Agreement.

Global Vipassana Pagoda

The Global Vipassana Pagoda, also known as the Global Pagoda, is a stone monument in Gorai, Mumbai, inaugurated in 2009, built for Vipassana meditation and enshrining Buddha relics.

Global Water Resources, Inc.

Global Water Resources, Inc. is an American pure-play water resource management company operating regulated water, wastewater, and recycled water utilities around Phoenix and Tucson, Arizona, listed on NASDAQ as GWRS.

Global Wind Energy Council

The Global Wind Energy Council is the international trade association representing the wind power industry, formally founded in 2005 with members in over 80 countries.

Global-e

Global-e, founded in Israel in 2013 and listed on Nasdaq since 2021, provides a cross-border platform handling localization, payments, shipping, and tax compliance for online brands.

GlobalConnect

GlobalConnect is a Nordic wholesale fiber and data center infrastructure group headquartered in Stockholm, formed in 2019 from EQT-owned fiber platforms and running more than 250,000 km of fiber.

GlobalEye

GlobalEye is an airborne early warning and control aircraft built by Saab, pairing the Erieye ER radar with the Bombardier Global 6000/6500 business jet for air, sea, and land surveillance.

GlobalFoundries

GlobalFoundries is a semiconductor contract manufacturer founded in 2009 as a joint venture of AMD and Abu Dhabi's ATIC, with fabs in the United States, Germany, and Singapore.

Globally asynchronous, locally synchronous

Globally asynchronous, locally synchronous (GALS) is a digital design style, introduced by Chapiro in 1984, where each chip block runs on its own clock and communicates asynchronously.

Globally Harmonized System of Classification and Labelling of Chemicals

The Globally Harmonized System of Classification and Labelling of Chemicals (GHS) is a United Nations system classifying chemical hazards through harmonized labels and safety data sheets.

Globalsat Group

Globalsat Group, also known as Globalsat, is a Pan-American mobile and fixed satellite services consortium founded in 1999 in Bolivia and headquartered in Boca Raton, Florida.

Globalstar

Globalstar is an American satellite telecommunications company headquartered in Covington, Louisiana, providing mobile satellite and IoT services from a low Earth orbit constellation that has carried Apple's Emergency SOS via satellite since 2022.

GlobalWafers

GlobalWafers (环球晶圆) is a Taiwanese manufacturer of semiconductor-grade silicon wafers, spun off from Sino-American Silicon Products in 2011, headquartered in Hsinchu and the world's third-largest wafer supplier.

Globant

Globant is an Argentine-founded technology services company offering digital transformation, software engineering, and AI services, listed on the New York Stock Exchange since its 2014 IPO.

Globe Telecom

Globe Telecom, Inc. is a major Philippine telecommunications company providing mobile, broadband, and enterprise services, headquartered in Taguig and one of the country's two dominant operators.

Globe valve

A globe valve, also called a stop valve, is a linear-motion valve with a spherical body, built for precise throttling of flow at the cost of pressure drop.

Globoidal cam indexer

The globoidal cam indexer, also called a roller gear cam indexer, uses an hourglass-shaped cam meshing with rollers to convert continuous rotation into precise intermittent motion in automated machinery.

Globoplay

Globoplay is a Brazilian subscription video streaming service owned by Grupo Globo, launched in 2015, combining on-demand video with live Globo channels and available in more than 20 countries.

Globus-M

Globus-M (Глобус-М) is the first Russian spherical tokamak, built at the Ioffe Physico-Technical Institute in Saint Petersburg and first started up in 1999, later upgraded to Globus-M2.

Glock

Glock, also known as the Glock Pistol, is a family of Austrian polymer-framed, striker-fired semi-automatic pistols developed by engineer Gaston Glock and adopted in 1982.

Glock 17

The Glock 17 is a 9×19mm, polymer-framed, striker-fired semi-automatic pistol designed by Austrian engineer Gaston Glock and adopted by the Austrian Army in 1982 as its P80 service pistol.

Glock 19

The Glock 19 is a compact, polymer-framed 9 mm semi-automatic pistol from Austrian manufacturer GLOCK, in production since 1988 and used widely in law enforcement.

Glock Ges.m.b.H.

Glock Ges.m.b.H. is an Austrian weapons manufacturer headquartered in Ferlach, best known for the polymer-framed Glock pistols designed by its founder Gaston Glock, which became the Austrian Army's service pistol in the 1980s.

Glock Safe Action system

The Glock Safe Action system is the striker-fired trigger design in Glock pistols, with three passive safeties that disengage as the trigger is pulled and re-engage when released.

Glock switch

A Glock switch, also called an auto sear or auto switch, is a small device that converts a semiautomatic Glock pistol into a fully automatic firearm, illegal to possess under federal law.

GLONASS (Глобальная навигационная спутниковая система)

GLONASS, or ГЛОНАСС, is Russia's global navigation satellite system, operated by the Russian Ministry of Defense as a counterpart to GPS and restored to 24 satellites in 2011.