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Princeton's WordNet

  1. gigahertz, GHz, gigacycle per second, gigacycle, Gcnoun

    1,000,000,000 periods per second

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  1. gc

    GC could hold different meanings depending on the context. However, a few general definitions could be: 1) In computing, GC often refers to "Garbage Collection", which is a form of automatic memory management. 2) In biology, GC might refer to "Guanine and Cytosine", the two nitrogenous bases in DNA and RNA. 3) In chemistry, GC is often used to abbreviate "Gas Chromatography", a technique used to analyze and separate compounds. 4) In business or social media, GC could refer to "Group Chat", a feature in most social media and messaging platforms. Please note the actual meaning of GC may vary based on context.

The New Hacker's Dictionary

  1. GC

    [from LISP terminology; Garbage Collect] 1. vt. To clean up and throw away useless things. “I think I'll GC the top of my desk today.” 2. vt. To recycle, reclaim, or put to another use. 3. n. An instantiation of the garbage collector process.Garbage collection is computer-science techspeak for a particular class of strategies for dynamically but transparently reallocating computer memory (i.e., without requiring explicit allocation and deallocation by higher-level software). One such strategy involves periodically scanning all the data in memory and determining what is no longer accessible; useless data items are then discarded so that the memory they occupy can be recycled and used for another purpose. Implementations of the LISP language usually use garbage collection.In jargon, the full phrase is sometimes heard but the abbrev GC is more frequently used because it is shorter. Note that there is an ambiguity in usage that has to be resolved by context: “I'm going to garbage-collect my desk” usually means to clean out the drawers, but it could also mean to throw away or recycle the desk itself.

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  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of GC in Chaldean Numerology is: 6

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of GC in Pythagorean Numerology is: 1

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