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Words for our modern age especially English words from Latin and Greek sources.

Word Unit: gibb-, gibbo-, gibboso- (Latin: hump, humpbacked).

Word Unit: giga- [GIG uh or JIG uh] , gig- (Greek: "giant"; a decimal prefix used in the international metric system for measurements).

Related "metric" families: yotta; zetta; exa; peta; tera; mega; kilo; hecto; deka; deci; centi; milli; micro; nano; pico; femto; atto; zepto; yocto.


Word Unit: giganto-, gigant- (Greek: giant; giantlike; very large).

Word Unit: gingivo-, gingiv- (Latin: the gums of the mouth).

Word Unit: glabr-, glab-, glabi- (Latin: smooth, hairless).

Word Unit: glaci- + (Latin: ice).

Other related "ice" units: crystallo; grando-.


Word Unit: gladi- (Latin: sword).

Word Unit: gland-, glans- (Latin: acorn; in medicine, gland, glans).

Word Unit: glauc-, glauco- + (Greek > Latin: a silvery color, or bluish green; gleaming, bright; gray).

Word Unit: glen-, glean- + (Latin: to make a collection; to gather what is left after the reapers).

Word Unit: glio-, gli-, glia-, -glia + (Greek: "glue"; in medicine, the network of supporting tissue and fibers that nourishes nerve cells within the brain and spinal cord).

Word Unit: glob-, glom- + (Latin: a round body, a ball; round, a sphere; the earth; "sphere" came from Latin globus, "round mass, sphere"; related to gleba, "clod, soil, land". Sense of "planet earth," or a three-dimensional map of it, appeared first in 1553).

Cross references of word families related directly, or indirectly, to: "land, ground, fields, soil, dirt, mud, clay, earth (world)": agra-; agrest-; agri-; agro-; argill-; choro-; chthon-; epeiro-; geo-; lut-; myso-; pedo-; pel-; rhyp-; soil-; sord-; terr-.


Word Unit: Global Navigation Satellite System (GLONASS) and Indian Agreement (Russian equivalent of U.S. GPS).



Word Unit: Global Positioning System (GPS), Defined (GPS Defined and Indications of Improvements in Accuracy ).



Word Unit: Global Positioning System (GPS): Index of Articles (lists of articles that include content about GPS).

Word Unit: Global Positioning System (GPS): More Consumer Usage (GPS expected to advance into consumer mainstream).

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