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| Domain | Definition |
Computing | GPL /G-P-L/ n. Abbreviation for `General Public License' in widespread use; see copyleft, General Public Virus. Often mis-expanded as `GNU Public License'. Source: Jargon File. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
GPL | English | General public licence | N/A |
GPL | French | Gaz de pétrole liquéfié | Chemical Industry |
GPL | Italian | Gas di petrolio liquefatto | Chemical Industry |
GPL | Portuguese | Gas de petróleo liquefeito | Chemical Industry |
GPL | Spanish | Gases de petróleo liquefactados | Chemical Industry |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
Crosswords: GPL |
| Specialty definitions using "GPL": Artemis microkernel ♦ General Public Virus, General Purpose Language, Genken Programming Language ♦ Index Data ♦ Linux ♦ Open source license ♦ Portable Scheme Debugger ♦ SCM ♦ TILE Forth, TLAs ♦ Valencia Simple Tasker. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "GPL" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses. Portuguese (liquified Petroleum Gas). |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Economic History | Guyana | The generating equipment currently owned by GPL is outdated and fails frequently. (references) |
Guyana | Initial ownership of GPL will be a 50/50 stock appropriation between the government and the investor. (references) | |
Guyana | It is estimated that an investment of US$154M is needed to bring GPL to adequate levels of operation. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
gpl | 98 | automobile gpl | 3 |
gnu gpl | 8 | gpl installation | 2 |
gpl track | 5 | gaz gpl | 2 |
gpl rank | 5 | 49 gpl lotus | 2 |
gpl lpg | 4 | gpl installateur | 2 |
2001 gento gpl | 4 | gpl station | 2 |
database gpl track | 3 | free gpl image viewer window | 2 |
gpl patch | 3 | check gpl grammar | 2 |
gpl license | 3 | checker gpl grammar | 2 |
firewall free gpl ware window | 3 | creative gnu gpl software writing | 2 |
creative gpl software writing | 2 | ||
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
Derivations | |
Words containing "GPL": eggplant, eggplants, gangplank, gangplanks, gangplow, gangplows. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words containing the letters "g-l-p" | |
+1 letter: glop, gulp, plug. | |
+2 letters: galop, glops, glyph, gulps, gulpy, plage, plugs. | |
+3 letters: apolog, epilog, gallop, galops, gloppy, glumpy, glyphs, gospel, gulped, gulper, lapdog, loping, magilp, megilp, paling, pelage, phlegm, piglet, piling, plagal, plages, plague, plaguy, pledge, plight, plough, plunge, plying, poling, proleg, prolog, puling, pungle, putlog, unplug. | |
+4 letters: apogeal, apologs, apology, cleping, earplug, eloping, epigeal, epilogs, galipot, gallops, galoped, galumph, glimpse, glopped, gluepot, glyphic, glyptic, gospels, graplin, grapnel, grapple, graupel, gripple, gulpers, gulpier, gulping, gunplay, gyplure, helping, kelping, lamping, lapdogs, lapping, lapsing, lapwing, leaping, limping, lipping, lisping, looping, lopping, louping, lumping, magilps, megilph, megilps, paginal, palings, palling, palming, parling, pealing, peeling, pegless, peglike, pelages, pelagic, pelting, pergola, phlegms, phlegmy, piglets, piglike, pignoli, pigtail, pilgrim, pilings, pillage, pilling, placing, plagued, plaguer, plagues, plaguey, planing, plating, playing, pledged, pledgee, pledger, pledges, pledget, pledgor, plights, ploughs, plowing, ploying, plugged, plugger, plugola, plumage, pluming, plunged, plunger, plunges, podgily, polling, polygon, pooling, prolegs, prologs, prolong, pudgily, pulings, pulling, pulping, pulsing, pungled, pungles, purling, putlogs, sapling, sliping, sloping, spangle, spangly, spiegel, spiling, splodge, splurge, splurgy, unplugs, upfling, upflung, uplight, yelping. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)47 50 4C |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references)--. .--. .-.. |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000111 01010000 01001100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)G P L |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0047 0050 004C |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)415046 |
| 1. Crosswords 2. Usage: Commercial 3. Quotations: Non-fiction 4. Expressions: Internet | 5. Abbreviations 6. Acronyms 7. Derivations 8. Anagrams | 9. Orthography 10. Bibliography |
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