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| exclamation point |
a punctuation mark (!) used after an exclamation (e.g., "It's hot!"), interjection (e.g., "Hey!"), or command (e.g., "Come here!"); exclamation mark. |
| gigabyte |
a unit of electronic storage capacity or memory equal to 1,073,741,824 bytes or approximately one billion bytes. (abbr.: G or GB) |
| gram1 |
the basic unit of weight in the metric system, equal to one thousandth of a kilogram or 15.43 grains. (abbr.: g) |
| Orson Welles |
U.S. actor, screenwriter, producer, and critically acclaimed motion picture director who first gained national recognition for his role in the 1938 radio broadcast adaptation of H.G. Wells's novel, The War of the Worlds (b.1915--d.1985). |
| sol1 |
the tone G in the musical scale of C major. [1/2 definitions] |
| treble clef |
a musical symbol placed on the second line from the bottom of the staff to indicate G above middle C; G clef. |
| velar |
pronounced with the back of the tongue close to or touching the soft palate, as the "g" sound in "gone" and the "k" sound in "cut". [1/3 definitions] |
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