Gist

Gist or GIST may refer to:

Computing

• Gist (Computing), a scientific graphics library written in the C programming language
• Gist (contact manager), an online contact management service acquired by BlackBerry in February 2011
• Gist, a pastebin service operated by GitHub
• GIST, Ginān Index & Search Tool, a tool to make Ginans available to researchers and scholars
• GiST, or Generalized Search Tree, a flexible data structure for building search trees
• Gist (contact manager), acquired by Blackberry, but discontinued in 2012

Institutes

• German Institute of Science and Technology (Singapore), a research and education institute
• Global Institute of Science & Technology, Haldia, West Bengal, India
• Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology, a research university in Gwangju City, South Korea

Medicine

• Gastrointestinal stromal tumor, an uncommon neoplasm of the gastrointestinal tract
• Gist processing, a cognitive process in fuzzy-trace theory

People

• Gist (surname)

Other uses

• Mount Gist, Queen Maud Land, Antarctica
• The Gist, an American podcast by Slate magazine
• theGIST, a science communication group and magazine based in Glasgow
• Global Innovation through Science and Technology initiative, an entrepreneur coaching organization
• gist, an upper ontology in information science

See also

• The Jist, a Norwegian experimental jazz duo