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General Average

Anything of Government Issue.

G1D Radio transmission designatorPhase modulation with a single channel containing quantized or digital information without the use of a modulating sub-carrier for data transmission. (ALRS)

G2B Radio transmission designatorPhase modulation (automatic reception). A single channel containing quantized or digital information with the use of a modulating sub-carrier. (ALRS)

Group of Seven Nations (United States, Canada, Japan, Britain, France, Germany, and Italy)

General Average

General Agency Agreement

Generally Accepted Accounting Principles.

Any little handy contraption such as a scraper or sailmaker's palm, etc.

Any sailboat with a four-sided mainsail, defined by two booms, one located on the bottom, perpendicular to the mast, and another, located on top, at an angle from the mast.

A four sided sail used instead of a triangular main sail. Used on gaff rigged boats.

A light triangular or quadrilateral sail set over a gaff.

A device attached to a safety or safety relief valve that prevents it from opening at the set pressure.

The amount chargeable to capital gains tax (CGT) from gains made on the disposal of an asset. In.

An increase or amplification. There are two general usages of the term in radar meteorology: (a) antenna gain (or gain factor) is the ratio of the power transmitted along the beam axis to that of an isotropic radiator transmitting the same total power; an ...

See gain.

Wind with a speed between 28 and 55 knots (32 and 63 mph); Beaufort scale numbers 7 through 10.

An unusually strong wind. In storm-warning terminology, a wind of 34 to 47 knots (39 to 54 miles per hour or 62-87 kilometers per hour).

The unit of acceleration in the centimeter-gram-second system of units, equal to one cm per sec2. Commonly used in gravimetry.