GA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does GA mean? 

• GA (noun)
  The noun GA has 3 senses:

1. the first known nerve agent, synthesized by German chemists in 1936; a highly toxic combustible liquid that is soluble in organic solvents and is used as a nerve gas in chemical warfare

2. a rare silvery (usually trivalent) metallic element; brittle at low temperatures but liquid above room temperature; occurs in trace amounts in bauxite and zinc ores

3. a state in southeastern United States; one of the Confederate states during the American Civil War

  Familiarity information: GA used as a noun is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• GA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The first known nerve agent, synthesized by German chemists in 1936; a highly toxic combustible liquid that is soluble in organic solvents and is used as a nerve gas in chemical warfare

Classified under:

Nouns denoting substances

Synonyms:

GA; tabun

Hypernyms ("GA" is a kind of...):

organophosphate nerve agent (any of a series of nerve agents containing organophosphate compounds first synthesized by German chemists in 1936; in World War II the Germans tested them in concentration camps but not on the battlefield; Iraq is alleged to have used them against Iran and against the Kurds)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A rare silvery (usually trivalent) metallic element; brittle at low temperatures but liquid above room temperature; occurs in trace amounts in bauxite and zinc ores

Classified under:

Nouns denoting substances

Synonyms:

atomic number 31; Ga; gallium

Hypernyms ("Ga" is a kind of...):

metal; metallic element (any of several chemical elements that are usually shiny solids that conduct heat or electricity and can be formed into sheets etc.)

Holonyms ("Ga" is a substance of...):

bauxite (a clay-like mineral; the chief ore of aluminum; composed of aluminum oxides and aluminum hydroxides; used as an abrasive and catalyst)

Sense 3

Meaning:

A state in southeastern United States; one of the Confederate states during the American Civil War

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

Empire State of the South; GA; Ga.; Georgia; Peach State

Instance hypernyms:

American state (one of the 50 states of the United States)

Meronyms (parts of "GA"):

Oxford (a university town in northern Mississippi; home of William Faulkner)

Tallapoosa; Tallapoosa River (river that rises in northwestern Georgia and flows southwest through central Alabama to join the Coosa River near Montgomery and form the Alabama River)

Okefenokee Swamp (a large swampy area of northeast Florida and southeast Georgia)

Flint; Flint River (a river in western Georgia that flows generally south to join the Chattahoochee River at the Florida border where they form the Apalachicola River)

Coosa; Coosa River (river that rises in northwestern Georgia and flows southwest through eastern Alabama to join the Tallapoosa River near Montgomery and form the Alabama River)

Chattahoochee; Chattahoochee River (a river rising in northern Georgia and flowing southwest and south to join the Flint River at the Florida border where they form the Apalachicola River)

Vidalia (a town in central Georgia; the origin of Vidalia onions)

Valdosta (a town in southern Georgia near the Florida border)

Savannah (a port in eastern Georgia near the mouth of the Savannah river)

Macon (a city in central Georgia to the southeast of Atlanta)

Augusta (a city in eastern Georgia north-northwest of Savannah; noted for golf tournaments)

Athens (a university town in northeast Georgia)

Atlanta; capital of Georgia (state capital and largest city of Georgia; chief commercial center of the southeastern United States; was plundered and burned by Sherman's army during the American Civil War)

Albany (a town in southwest Georgia; processing center for peanuts and pecans)

Domain member region:

Kennesaw Mountain (battle of the American Civil War (1864); Union forces under William Tecumseh Sherman were repulsed by Confederate troops under Joseph Eggleston Johnston)

Holonyms ("GA" is a part of...):

America; the States; U.S.; U.S.A.; United States; United States of America; US; USA (North American republic containing 50 states - 48 conterminous states in North America plus Alaska in northwest North America and the Hawaiian Islands in the Pacific Ocean; achieved independence in 1776)

South (the region of the United States lying to the south of the Mason-Dixon line)

Deep South (the southeastern region of the United States: South Carolina and Georgia and Alabama and Mississippi and Louisiana; prior to the American Civil War all these states produced cotton and permitted slavery)

Holonyms ("GA" is a member of...):

Confederacy; Confederate States; Confederate States of America; Dixie; Dixieland; South (the southern states that seceded from the United States in 1861)

 Context examples 

In addition, GA inhibits 17,20-lyase and 17 beta-hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase, resulting in decreased conversions of 17-hydroxyprogesterone to androstenedione and androstenedione to testosterone.

(Licorice, NCI Thesaurus)

Geminga (pronounced geh-MING-ga), discovered in 1972 by NASA’s Small Astronomy Satellite 2, is among the brightest pulsars in gamma rays.

(NASA’s Fermi Mission Links Nearby Pulsar’s Gamma-ray ‘Halo’ to Antimatter Puzzle, NASA)

Ga-67 scintigraphy (GS) cannot differentiate between tumor and acute inflammation.

(Gallium Citrate Ga-67, NCI Thesaurus)

Gaël Choblet from the University of Nantes in France and co-authors found that a loose, rocky core with 20 to 30 percent empty space would do the trick.

(Powering Saturn's Active Ocean Moon, NASA)

The periodically repeated leucine side chains extending from one alpha helix interdigitate with leucine residues of another alpha helix, facilitating coiled-coil dimerization; like charge repulsion in this region perturbs homodimer formation; heterodimers are promoted by opposing charge attractions. c-MYC transcription factor binds to CAC(GA)TG DNA sites.

(MYC Family Gene, NCI Thesaurus)

Provider: BresaGen, Inc., Athens, GA.

(BG01, NCI Thesaurus)

Glycyrrhizinic acid in licorice root extract is hydrolyzed to glycyrrhetic acid (GA); GA inhibits 11 beta-hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase, resulting in inhibition of the conversion of cortisol to the inactive steroid cortisone and elevated cortisol levels.

(Licorice, NCI Thesaurus)