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Gram (usually as g) |
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Gravities (usually as G) |
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Grin (usually as <g>) / big Grin (usually as <G>) |
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| G2G |
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Good To Go / Got To Go |
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| GA |
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General Availability |
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| GA |
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Genetic Algorithm |
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| GA |
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Go Ahead |
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| GAAP |
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Generally Accepted Accounting Principles |
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| GAC |
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Get A Clue |
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| GAC |
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Global Assembly Cache |
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| GAISP |
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Generally Accepted Information Security Principles |
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| GAK |
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Government Access to Keys |
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| GAM |
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Global Allocation Map |
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| GAML |
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Generalized Analytical Markup Language |
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| GAN |
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Global Area Network |
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| GAO |
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Government Accountability Office |
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| GAP |
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(Bluetooth) Generic Access Profile |
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| GAP |
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Generic Address Parameter |
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| GART |
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Graphics Address Remapping Table |
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| GAS |
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Generic Addressing Structure |
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| GAS |
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Greetings And Salutations |
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| GAT |
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Get A Life |
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| GATED |
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GATE Daemon |
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| GB |
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Gigabit (usually as Gb) / Gigabyte (usually as GB) |
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| GBP |
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Group Buffer Pool |
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| GBPS |
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Gigabits Per Second (usually as Gbps) / GigaBytes Per Second (usually as GBps) |
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| GBS |
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GigaBits per Second |
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| GBS |
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Group Bridging Service |
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| GCA |
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Graphic Communications Association |
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| GCCS |
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Government Code and Cipher School (sometimes as GC&CS) |
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| GCDI |
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Galacticomm Custom Device Interface |
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| GCE |
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Graphic Control Extension |
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| GCF |
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Global Certification Forum |
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| GCHQ |
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(U.K.) Government Communications Headquarters |
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| GCID |
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Global Call Identifier |
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| GCIDIE |
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Global Call Identifier Information Element |
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| GCN |
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Government Computer News (magazine) |
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| GCOS |
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God's Chosen Operating System |
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| GCR |
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Gray Component Replacement |
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| GCRA |
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Generic Cell Rate Algorithm |
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| GCS |
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[VM] Group Control System |
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| GCSR |
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Graphical Communicating Shared Resources |
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| GCSX |
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[U.K.] Government Connect Secure Extranet (sometimes as GCSx) |
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| GD&R |
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Grinning, Ducking, and Running (alternatively GR&D) |
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| GDA |
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Global Directory Agent |
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| GDA |
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GNOME Data Access (sometimes as GNU Data Access) |
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| GDAP |
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Government Document Application Profile |
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| GDG |
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Generation Data Group |
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| GDI |
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Graphic Display Interface |
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| GDI |
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Graphics Device Interface (Windows) / Graphical Device Interface |
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| GDMI |
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Generic Definition of Management Information |
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| GDMO |
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Guidelines for the Definition of Managed Objects |
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| GDROM |
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Giga Disk Read Only Memory |
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| GD-ROM |
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Giga Disk Read Only Memory |
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| GDS |
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Generalized Data Stream |
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| GDS |
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Global Directory Service |
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| GDS |
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Graphics Data Syntax |
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| GDT |
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Global Descriptor Table |
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| GDTR |
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Global Descriptor Table Register |
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| GE |
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General Electric |
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| GE |
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Group of Experts |
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| GECOS |
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General Electric Comprehensive Operating System |
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| GEDCOM |
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GEnealogical Data COMmunications (file format) |
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| GEISCO |
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General Electric Information Services COmpany |
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| GEMDES |
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Government Electronic Messaging and Document Exchange Service |
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| GENA |
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General Event Notification Architecture |
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| GEO |
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Geostationary Earth Orbit |
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| GF |
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Girlfriend |
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| GFC |
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Generic Flow Control |
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| GFCI |
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Ground Fault Circuit Interrupter |
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| GFDL |
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GNU Free Documentation License |
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| GFE |
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Government Furnished Equipment |
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| GFI |
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General Format Identifier |
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| GFID |
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General Format IDentifier |
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| GFM |
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GitHub Flavored Markdown |
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| GFN |
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Gone For Now / Good For Now |
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| GFP |
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Global Functional Plane |
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| GFR |
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Grim File Reaper |
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| GFS |
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Grandfather Father Son |
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| GFX |
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Global Effects |
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| GFX |
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Graphics |
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| GG |
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Good Game / Good Going (usually as gg) |
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| GGG |
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Giant Global Graph |
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| GGP |
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Gateway - to - Gateway Protocol |
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| GHZ |
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GigaHertz (usually as GHz) |
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| GIA |
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General International Area |
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| GICS |
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Global Industry Classification Standard |
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| GID |
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Group IDentification |
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| GIF |
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Graphics Interchange Format |
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| GIGO |
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Garbage In, Garbage Out |
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| GIL |
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Globalization, Internationalization, and Localization |
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| GILC |
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Global Internet Liberty Campaign |
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| GIMP |
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GNU Image Manipulation Program |
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| GIPI |
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Global Internet Policy Initiative |
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| GIPS |
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Giga Instructions Per Second |
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| GIR |
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Geographic Information Retrieval |
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| GIS |
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Geographic Information System |
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| GIS |
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Global International Standard |
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| GIST |
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Great Ideas for Starting Things |
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| GITS |
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Government Information Technology Services |
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| GIYF |
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Google Is Your Friend |
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| GJ |
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Good Job (usually as gj) |
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| GKI |
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Generic Kernel Interface |
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| GKS |
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Graphics Kernel System |
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| GL |
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(HP) Graphics Language |
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| GL |
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Good Luck |
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| GL |
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Group Librarian (MPE) |
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| GLBS |
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Great Lakes Business Systems |
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| GLM |
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Global Lock Manager |
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| GM |
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Game Master / Guild Master |
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| GM |
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General MIDI |
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| GM |
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Good Move |
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| GMG |
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Government Manufacturing Group |
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| GML |
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Generalized Markup Language |
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| GMO |
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Guest Memory Operation |
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| GMPCS |
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Global Mobile Personal Communications by Satellite |
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| GMPG |
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Global Multimedia Protocols Group |
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| GMPLS |
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Generalized Multi-Protocol Label Switching |
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| GMSK |
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Gaussian Minimum Shift Keying |
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| GMSKFM |
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Gaussian Minimum Shift Keying Frequency Modulation |
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| GMSK-FM |
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Gaussian Minimum Shift Keying Frequency Modulation |
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| GMT |
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Greenwich Mean Time (aka Zulu Time) |
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| GMX |
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Global information management Metrics eXchange |
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| GN |
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Given Name |
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| GND |
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Ground |
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| GNM |
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Generic Network Model |
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| GNMP |
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Government Network Management Profile |
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| GNN |
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Global Network Navigator |
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| GNOME |
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GNU Network Object Model Environment |
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| GNS |
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Get Nearest Server |
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| GNS |
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GNU Name System |
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| GNS |
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Graphical Network Simulator (sometimes as GNS3) |
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| GNU |
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GNU's Not Unix |
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| GO |
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Game Over |
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| GOAT |
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Go Away Troll (sometimes as GoAT) |
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| GOAT |
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Greatest Of All Time |
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| GOD |
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Givers Of Destruction |
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| GOE |
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Government Owned Equipment |
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| GOF |
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Gang Of Four |
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| GOP |
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(UEFI) Graphics Output Protocol |
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| GOS |
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Grade Of Service |
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| GOSIP |
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Government Open Systems Interconnection Profile |
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| GOV |
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Government (usually as .gov) |
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| GOVT |
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Government |
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| GP |
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Group Policy |
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| GP |
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Group Processor |
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| GPA |
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Grade Point Average |
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| GPA |
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Guest Physical Address |
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| GPADL |
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Guest Physical Address Descriptor List |
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| GPD |
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Gas Plasma Display |
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| GPD |
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General Purpose Discipline |
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| GPDPT |
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Guest Page Directory Pointer Table |
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| GPDT |
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Guest Page Directory Table |
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| GPE |
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General Purpose Event |
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| GPE |
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GNOME Palmtop Environment / GNU Palmtop Environment |
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| GPF |
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General Protection Fault / General Protection Failure |
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| GPF |
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Generalized Patch Format |
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| GPFS |
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General Parallel File System |
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| GPG |
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GNU Privacy Guard |
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| GPIB |
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General Purpose Interface Bus (aka HPIB) |
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| GPIO |
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General Purpose Input/Output |
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| GPL |
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General Public License |
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| GPL |
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General Purpose Language |
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| GPML4T |
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Guest Page Map Level 4 Table |
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| GPN |
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Government Packet Network |
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| GPO |
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Government Printing Office |
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| GPO |
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Group Policy Object |
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| GPRS |
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General Packet Radio Service |
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| GPS |
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Global Positioning System / Global Positioning Satellite (network) |
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| GPT |
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Guest Page Table |
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| GPT |
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GUID Partition Table |
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| GPU |
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Graphics Processing Unit |
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| GPV |
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General Public Virus |
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| GPX |
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Graphics Processor Accelerator |
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| GQ |
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Generation Qualifier |
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| GR&D |
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Grinning, Running, & Ducking (alternatively GD&R) |
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| GR8 |
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Great |
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| GRC |
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Generic Reference Configuration |
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| GRD |
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GOSIP Register Database |
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| GRD |
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Ground |
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| GRDDL |
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Gleaning Resource Descriptions from Dialects of Languages |
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| GRE |
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Gecko Runtime Environment |
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| GRE |
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Generic Routing Encapsulation (tunneling) |
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| GRID |
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Global Release Identifier standard (usually as GRid) |
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| GRIN |
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GRaded INdices |
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| GRP |
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Group |
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| GRPMOD |
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Group Modulator |
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| GS |
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Games Society |
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| GS |
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General Schedule |
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| GS |
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Group Separator (ASCII) |
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| GSA |
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[U.S.] General Services Administration |
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| GSA |
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Grey Scale Adapter |
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| GSAT |
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General telephone and electronics SATellite corporation |
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| GSB |
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General Systems Business |
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| GSC |
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General System Connect (bus or interface) |
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| GSG |
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Government Systems Group |
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| GSI |
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[U.K.] Government Secure Intranet (usually as GSi) |
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| GSI |
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Global Secondary Index |
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| GSIM |
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General Services Industry Marketing (group) |
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| GSM |
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Global System for Mobile (communications) |
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| GSMP |
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General Switch Management Protocol |
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| GSN |
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Government Satellite Network |
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| GSS |
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Generation Support Statement |
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| GSS |
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Generic Security Service |
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| GSS/RSS |
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Generation Support Statement / Reception Support Statement |
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| GSTN |
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General Switched Telephone Network |
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| GT |
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Give Token |
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| GTA |
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Give Token Acknowledgment |
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| GTA |
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Government Telecommunications Agency |
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| GTB |
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Google Toolbar |
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| GTC |
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General Telephone Company |
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| GTC |
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Give Token Confirm |
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| GTE |
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General Telephone and Electronics |
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| GTF |
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Generalized Timing Formula |
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| GTG |
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Good To Go / Got To Go |
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| GTLD |
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Generic Top Level Domain (usually as gTLD) |
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| GTN |
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Government Telecommunications Network |
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| GTS |
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Gamma Transfer Service |
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| GTSY |
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Glad To See You / Good To See You |
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| GTT |
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Global Title Translation / Global Title Transmission |
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| GTUBE |
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Generic Test for Unsolicited Bulk Email |
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| GUADEC |
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GNOME User And Developer European Conference |
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| GUI |
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Graphical User Interface |
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| GUID |
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Globally Unique Identifier |
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| GURPS |
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Generic Universal Role Playing Game |
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| GUS |
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Guide to the Use of Standards |
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| GVA |
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Guest Virtual Address |
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| GVIF |
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Gigabit Video Interface |
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| GWES |
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(Windows CE) Graphics, Windowing, and Event Subsystem |
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| GXC |
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GDI to XPS Conversion |
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