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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • abbreviation gigacycle

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun An abbreviation of greatest common measure.
  • noun An abbreviation of Grand Cross of the Hanoverian Guelphic Order or Grand Cross of Hanover;
  • noun of Knight of the Grand Cross of Hanover.
  • noun An abbreviation of Grand Cross of the Bath. See Knights of the Bath, under bath.
  • noun In astronomy, abbreviations of Gould's Cordova Zones, a series of star-catalogues: sometimes referred to as Z. C. (Zonæ Cordobenses).
  • noun An abbreviation of greatest common factor.

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  • noun 1,000,000,000 periods per second

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