Gram (disambiguation)
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Gram is a unit of measurement of mass. Otherwise, "gram" may refer to:
- -gram, the Greek-based suffix meaning "drawing" or "representation."
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[edit] Places
- Gram (Denmark), a town in Denmark
- Gram municipality, a municipality in Denmark
- Grand Rapids Art Museum (popularly known by its acronym GRAM), an art museum in Grand Rapids, Michigan
[edit] People
- Hans Gram (1754-1804), Danish-American musician
- Zénobe Gramme (1826–1901), Belgian electrical engineer
- Jørgen Pedersen Gram (1850–1916), Danish mathematician and actuary
- Hans Christian Gram (1853–1938), Danish scientist who invented Gram staining
- Peder Gram (1881–1956), Danish composer and organist
- Jason Gram (born 1984), Australian rules footballer
- Gram Parsons (1946–1973), American singer and musician
[edit] Mythology and fiction
- Gram (mythology), a sword in Norse mythology
- Gram of Denmark, a legendary Danish king
- Gram (Middle-earth), a King of Rohan from J. R. R. Tolkien's fiction
- Mount Gram (Middle-earth), a fictional place in Tolkien's writings
- Grams: Penny Halliwell, grandmother of the Charmed Ones on the WB television series Charmed
- The name given to the lance of Gallantmon.
[edit] Science and technology
- Gram staining, a method of distinguishing bacteria; Gram negative or Gram positive distinguish bacterial groups based upon their response to this method.
- Gram Commercial A/S, a Danish major appliance manufacturer.
- GRAM domain, a domain found in some membrane-associated proteins
- Grid Resource Allocation Manager, a component of the Globus Toolkit in grid computing
- Gramian matrix, used in mathematics to test for linear independence of functions
- GRAM, Graphic (GPL) Random Access Memory, a variant of Random Access Memory used in the TI-99/4A
- Gramian age, used in geology for a time period in the late Miocene in Northern Germany
[edit] Agriculture and horticulture
- Gram, from Latin granum (seed) via Portuguese and then languages of the Indian subcontinent, is sometimes used to refer to chickpeas and other pulses
- Green gram = Mung bean
- Bengal gram = Chickpea
- Red gram = Pigeon pea
- Black gram = Urad (bean)
- Horse gram
- It may also refer to a lentil
- Gram, the abbreviation for the orchid genus Grammatophyllum
[edit] See also
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