GM
Appearance
GM, Gm, gm, or similar may refer to:
Transportation
[edit]- General Motors, American automobile manufacturing company, founded September 16, 1908
- 2009–2011: Motors Liquidation Company
- Zhejiang Geely Ming Industrial Co., Ltd. (Chinese: 浙江吉铭实业有限公司, common known as GM Motor), a motorcycle manufacturer founded in 1995
- GM chassis or Gusenichnaya Machina, a Russian tracked vehicle chassis
- Google Maps, a web mapping service that can compute routes between places
Places
[edit]- The Gambia, by ISO 3166 code
- Germany, by FIPS 10-4 country code
- Greater Manchester, North West England
Sports and gaming
[edit]- RGM-79 GM, a mobile suit series in the video game Mobile Suit Gundam
- Gamemaster or game master, a person officiating in a multiplayer role-playing game
- Grandmaster (chess)
- GM (magazine)
- Gunn & Moore, British sports equipment company
Science, technology, and mathematics
[edit]- Genetic modification or genetically modified, manipulation of an organism's genome
- Silty gravel, in the Unified Soil Classification System
- Standard gravitational parameter
- The multiplicative group scheme, denoted Gm
- Metacentric height, the distance between the center of gravity (G) and the metacenter (M) of a ship
- Göttinger Miszellen, a scientific journal published by the Seminar für Ägyptologie und Koptologie (seminar for Egyptology and Coptology) of the University of Göttingen, Germany
Electronics and computing
[edit]- Transconductance (short for transfer conductance) or mutual conductance, denoted gm, an electronic component parameter
- General MIDI (GM or GM 1), a standardized specification for Musical Instrument Digital Interface synthesizers, developed by the American MIDI Manufacturers Association (MMA) and the Japan MIDI Standards Committee (JMSC) and first published in 1991
- Golden master, a stage in the software release life cycle, referring to a version to be distributed to customers, i.e. ready for release to manufacturing (RTM)
- GraphicsMagick, a fork of ImageMagick
Metrology
[edit]- Geiger–Müller tube or G-M tube, a type of radiation detector
- Gigametre or gigameter (Gm), one billion metres
- GM, a unit of two-photon absorption cross-section, named after Maria Goeppert Mayer
- Gram or gramme (historically sometimes abbreviated "gm", but now usually "g"), a metric unit of mass
Other uses
[edit]- Gm (digraph), pair of letters used in English for certain Greek words
- G minor, chords and scale in music
- General manager in business
- Grand Marshal (RPI), the highest elected student leader of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
- Grant-maintained school, a kind of state school in England and Wales, 1988–1998
- Genital mutilation
- George Medal, a UK, primarily civil, decoration for acts of great bravery
- Gunner's mate, a US Navy rating
- General Mills, American food manufacturing company
- GM Sugar Uganda Limited
See also
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