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General Electric Co.: major American corporation and one of the largest and most diversified corporations in the world. Its products include electrical and electronic equipment, plastics, aircraft engines, medical imaging equipment, and financial ...
General Federation of Women's Clubs International: umbrella organization in the United States founded in 1890 to coordinate its members' efforts at promoting volunteer community service. During its more than century-long existence, the federation has focused its ...
General Foods Corporation: former American manufacturer of packaged grocery and meat products.
General Grant National Memorial: mausoleum of U.S. President Ulysses S. Grant in New York City, standing on a bluff overlooking the Hudson River. It was designed by John H. Duncan. The monument, 150 feet ...
General Italian Confederation of Labour: Italy's largest trade-union federation. It was organized in Rome in 1944 as a nationwide labour federation to replace the dissolved Fascist syndicates. Its founders, who included communists, social democrats, and ...
General Mills, Inc.: leading American producer of packaged consumer foods, especially flour, breakfast cereals, snacks, prepared mixes, and similar products. It is also one of the largest food service manufacturers in the world. ...
General Motors Corporation: American corporation that became the world's largest motor-vehicle manufacturer in 1931 and maintained that status into the 21st century. It operates manufacturing and assembly plants and distribution centres throughout the ...
General San Martin: cabecera (county seat) and partido (county) of Gran ("Greater") Buenos Aires, Argentina. It lies immediately northwest of the city of Buenos Aires, in Buenos Aires provincia. The county seat and ...
General Santos: city, southern Mindanao, Philippines. The city is named for General Paulino Santos, who directed the pioneer settlement (mostly by Christian Filipino migrants) and development of the Koronadal Valley that began ...
General Sarmiento: partido (county) of Gran ("Greater") Buenos Aires, Argentina. It lies northwest of the city of Buenos Aires, in Buenos Aires provincia. The early settlement of the county centred on the ...
General Security, Committee of: organ of the French Revolutionary government. It directed the political police and Revolutionary justice. Founded by the National Convention in 1792, the committee administered the Reign of Terror of 1793-94, ...
general semantics: a philosophy of language-meaning that was developed by Alfred Korzybski (1879-1950), a Polish-American scholar, and furthered by S.I. Hayakawa, Wendell Johnson, and others; it is the study of language as ...
general staff: in the military, a group of officers that assists the commander of a division or larger unit by formulating and disseminating his policies, transmitting his orders, and overseeing their execution. ...
general store: retail store in a small town or rural community that carries a wide variety of goods, including groceries. In the United States the general store was the successor of the ...
general strike: stoppage of work by a substantial proportion of workers in a number of industries in an organized endeavour to achieve economic or political objectives. A strike covering only one industry ...
General Stud Book: in horse breeding, prototype of the breeding record of purebred horses, or studbook (q.v.).
general will: theory of Jean-Jacques Rousseau, 18th-century French political philosopher, that in a democratic society the state represents the general will of the citizens, and that in obeying its laws each citizen ...
General, Municipal, and Boilermakers' Union: one of the largest trade unions in Great Britain and one of the two giant general unions (the other being the Transport and General Workers' Union). The General and Municipal ...
generalite: the basic administrative unit of 17th- and 18th-century France. It was first established in the late 14th century to organize the collection of royal revenues. In the 15th century, four ...
generalization: in psychology, the tendency to respond in the same way to different but similar stimuli. For example, a dog conditioned to salivate to a tone of a particular pitch and ...
Generation of 1898: in Spain, the novelists, poets, essayists, and thinkers active at the time of the Spanish-American War (1898), who reinvigorated Spanish letters and restored Spain to a position of intellectual and ...
generative grammar: a precisely formulated set of rules whose output is all (and only) the sentences of a language-i.e., of the language that it generates. There are many different kinds of generative ...
genero chico: (Spanish: "little genre"), Spanish literary genre of light dramatic or operatic one-act playlets, as contrasted with the genero grande of serious drama or opera. Developed primarily in the theatres of ...
Genesee: county, northwestern New York state, U.S., located in a lowland region with several swamps, midway between Buffalo and Rochester. It is drained by Tonawanda, Oak Orchard, and Oatka creeks. The ...
Genesee River: river mainly in New York state, U.S. The Genesee flows generally north from its headwaters in Pennsylvania, crosses the New York State Canal System, and bisects Rochester to enter Lake ...
Genesis: British progressive rock group noted for their atmospheric sound in the 1970s and extremely popular albums and singles of the 1980s and '90s. The principal members were Peter Gabriel (b. ...
Genesis: the first book of the Old Testament. Its name derives from the opening words: "In the beginning&elipsis;." Genesis narrates the primeval history of the world (chapters 1-11) and the patriarchal ...
Genesis Apocryphon: pseudepigraphal work (not accepted in any canon of scripture), one of the most important works of the Essene community of Jews, part of whose library was discovered in 1947 in ...
Genesius, Joseph: Byzantine scholar whose history of Constantinople is one of the few known sources on the relatively obscure 9th-century period of Byzantine history.
genet: any of about five species of lithe, catlike carnivores of the genus Genetta, family Viverridae. Genets are elongate, short-legged animals with long, tapering tails; pointed noses; large, rounded ears; and ...
Genet, Edmond-Charles: French emissary to the United States during the French Revolution who severely strained Franco-American relations by conspiring to involve the United States in France's war against Great Britain.
Genet, Jean: French criminal and social outcast turned writer who, as a novelist, transformed erotic and often obscene subject matter into a poetic vision of the universe and, as a dramatist, became ...
genetic code: the sequence of nucleotides in deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) and ribonucleic acid (RNA) that determines the amino acid sequence of proteins. Though the linear sequence of nucleotides in DNA contains the ...
genetic disease, human: any of the diseases and disorders that are caused by mutations in one or more genes.
genetic drift: a change in the gene pool of a small population that takes place strictly by chance. Genetic drift can result in genetic traits being lost from a population or becoming ...
genetic engineering: the artificial manipulation, modification, and recombination of DNA or other nucleic acid molecules in order to modify an organism or population of organisms.
genetics: study of heredity in general and of genes in particular.
genetics, human: study of the inheritance of characteristics by children from parents. Inheritance in humans does not differ in any fundamental way from that in other organisms.
Geneva: city, Ontario county, west-central New York, U.S. It lies at the northern end of Seneca Lake, in the Finger Lakes region, 48 miles (77 km) southeast of Rochester. The site, ...
Geneva: town, Adams county, eastern Indiana, U.S., on the Wabash River, 36 miles (58 km) northeast of Muncie. It was created in 1874 through the incorporation of the towns of Buffalo ...
Geneva: city, capital of Geneve canton, in the far southwestern corner of Switzerland that juts into France. One of Europe's most cosmopolitan cities, Geneva has served as a model for republican ...
Geneva Accords: collection of documents relating to Indochina and issuing from the Geneva Conference of April 26-July 21, 1954, attended by representatives of Cambodia, the People's Republic of China, France, Laos, the ...
Geneva Bible: new translation of the Bible published in Geneva (New Testament, 1557; Old Testament, 1560) by a colony of Protestant scholars in exile from England who worked under the general direction ...
Geneva Catechism: doctrinal confession prepared by John Calvin to instruct children in Reformed theology. Recognizing that his first catechism (1537) was too difficult for children, Calvin rewrote it. He arranged the Geneva ...
Geneva City Conservatory and Botanical Gardens: major botanical research centre in Geneva, Switz., specializing in such areas as floristics, biosystematics, and morphology. Founded in 1817, the 19-hectare (47-acre) municipal garden cultivates about 15,000 species of plants; ...
Geneva Conventions: a series of international treaties concluded in Geneva between 1864 and 1949 for the purpose of ameliorating the effects of war on soldiers and civilians. Two additional protocols to the ...
Geneva mechanism: one of the most commonly used devices for producing intermittent rotary motion, characterized by alternate periods of motion and rest with no reversal in direction. It is also used for ...
Geneva, Academy of: private school of education founded at Geneva, Switz., in 1912 by a Swiss psychologist, Edouard Claparede, to advance child psychology and its application to education. A pioneer of scientific-realist education, ...
Geneva, Lake: largest Alpine lake in Europe (area 224 square miles [581 square km]), lying between southwestern Switzerland and Haute-Savoie departement, southeastern France. About 134 square miles (347 square km) of the ...
Geneve: canton, southwestern Switzerland. The canton lies between the Jura Mountains and the Alps and consists mainly of its capital, the city of Geneva (Geneve). It is one of the smallest ...
Genevieve, Saint: patron saint of Paris, who allegedly saved that city from the Huns.
Genghis Khan: Mongolian warrior-ruler, one of the most famous conquerors of history, who consolidated tribes into a unified Mongolia and then extended his empire across Asia to the Adriatic Sea.
genius: in classical Roman times, an attendant spirit of a person or place.
genius: in psychology, a person of extraordinary intellectual power. The word genius is used in two closely related but somewhat different senses. In the first sense, as popularized by U.S. psychologist ...
genizah: in Judaism, a repository for timeworn sacred manuscripts and ritual objects, generally located in the attic or cellar of a synagogue. In the Middle Ages most synagogues had a genizah, ...
Genje carpet: floor covering handwoven in Azerbaijan in or near the city of Ganca (also spelled Gendje or Ganja; in the Soviet era it was named Kirovabad, and under Imperial Russia, Yelizavetpol). ...
Genk: municipality, Limburg province, northeastern Belgium, on the edge of the Kempenland (Campine) Plateau, north of Liege. Formerly a market centre and holiday resort with scenic marshes and woods (including the ...
Gennadios II Scholarios: first patriarch of Constantinople (1454-64) under Turkish rule and the foremost Greek Orthodox Aristotelian theologian and polemicist of his time. Scholarios became expert in European philosophy and theology and was ...
Gennadius I of Constantinople, Saint: Byzantine theologian, biblical exegete, and patriarch, a champion of Christian Orthodoxy who strove for an ecumenical (Greek: "universal") statement of doctrine on the person and work of Christ to reconcile ...
Gennadius Of Marseilles: theologian-priest whose work De viris illustribus ("On Famous Men") constitutes the sole source for biographical and bibliographical information on numerous early Eastern and Western Christian authors.
Gennadius Of Novgorod: Russian Orthodox archbishop of Novgorod, Russia, whose leadership in suppressing Judaizing Christian sects occasioned his editing the first Russian translation of the Bible.
Gennep, Arnold van: French ethnographer and folklorist, best known for his studies of the rites of passage of various cultures.
Gennes, Pierre-Gilles de: French physicist, who was awarded the 1991 Nobel Prize for Physics for his discoveries about the ordering of molecules in liquid crystals and polymers.
Genoa: unincorporated town, Douglas county, western Nevada, U.S., west of the Carson River and east of Lake Tahoe, 12 miles (19 km) south-southwest of Carson City. Genoa is the oldest permanent ...
Genoa: city and Mediterranean seaport in northwestern Italy. It is the capital of Genova provincia and of Liguria regione and is the centre of the Italian Riviera. Its total area is ...
Genoa, Conference of: (April 10-May 19, 1922), post-World War I meeting at Genoa, Italy, to discuss the economic reconstruction of central and eastern Europe and to explore ways to improve relations between Soviet ...
Genoa, Gulf of: northern portion of the Ligurian Sea (an inlet of the Mediterranean Sea), extending eastward around the northwest coast of Italy for 90 miles (145 km), from Imperia to La Spezia. ...
genocide: the deliberate and systematic destruction of a group of people because of their ethnicity, nationality, religion, or race. The term, derived from the Greek genos ("race," "tribe," ...
Genoese lace: bobbin lace made at Genoa, Italy, from the second half of the 16th century; it developed from the earlier knotted fringe called punto a groppo. The early laces (merletti a ...
genotype: the genetic constitution of an organism. The genotype determines the hereditary potentials and limitations of an individual from embryonic formation through adulthood. Among organisms that reproduce sexually, an individual's genotype ...
Genovese, Vito: one of the most powerful of American crime syndicate bosses from the 1930s to the 1950s and a major influence even from prison, 1959-69.
Genovesi, Antonio: Italian philosopher and economist whose proposals for reforms in the Kingdom of Naples combined humanist ideas with a radical Christian metaphysical system.
genre: a distinctive type or category of literary composition, such as the epic, tragedy, comedy, novel, and short story.
genre painting: painting of scenes from everyday life, of ordinary people in work or recreation, depicted in a generally realistic manner. Genre art contrasts with that of landscape, portraiture, still life, religious ...
genro: ("principal elders"), extraconstitutional oligarchy that dominated the Japanese government from the promulgation of the Meiji Constitution (1889) to the early 1930s. The genro were men who had played a leading ...
Genroku period: in Japanese history, era from 1688 to 1704, characterized by a rapidly expanding commercial economy and the development of a vibrant urban culture centred in the cities of Kyoto, Osaka, ...