GEM
Encyclopedia
Broadcasting and entertainment
- G.E.M., a pop singer from Hong Kong
- GEM (Australian TV channel)GEM (Australian TV channel)GEM is an Australian free-to-air high definition digital television channel, launched by the Nine Network on Sunday 26 September 2010 at 6am...
, an Australian free-to-air TV Channel - Gem (band)Gem (band)GEM is a band from Utrecht, The Netherlands. The five-piece, founded in 2003, plays energetic rock, mixing grit with melody. GEM has released two albums of which Escapades is the newest.-Biography:...
, stylized as GEM, an indie rock band from Utrecht, The Netherlands - Globally Executable MHPGlobally Executable MHPGlobally Executable MHP is a DVB specification of a Java based middleware for TV broadcast receivers, IPTV terminals and Blu-ray players. GEM is an ETSI standard and an ITU "Recommendation...
, a digital television specification - Generable (sic) Enigmatic Matrix from the anime and manga My-Otome (see List of My-Otome terminology)
Groups, companies, and organizations
- G. E. M. Membership Department StoresG. E. M. Membership Department StoresG. E. M. Membership Department Stores, also known as G.E.X. or G.E.S., was a chain of discount stores in the United States and Canada. The chain extended membership to direct and indirect government employees; the name was an acronym for "Government Employees Mart."Appliance and electronics...
, chain of discount stores in the United States and Canada - GEM Motoring AssistGEM Motoring AssistGEM Motoring Assist is a road safety and breakdown recovery organisation based in the UK. It was formed in 1932 as the Company of Veteran Motorists and operated under this name until 1983, when it was renamed The Guild of Experienced Motorists as a symbolic brand name...
, a road safety and breakdown recovery organisation - GeneralmusicGeneralmusicGeneralmusic is an Italian musical instrument manufacturing company focusing on digital and acoustic pianos, synthesizers and arranger workstations...
, an Italian manufacturer of organs, synths and keyboards, formerly 'Galanti Electro Music' - Global Electric MotorcarsGlobal Electric MotorcarsGlobal Electric Motorcars , a wholly owned subsidiary of Polaris Industries, is a U.S. manufacturer in the low-speed vehicle category, producing neighborhood electric vehicles since 1998 and has sold more than 45,000 GEM battery-electric vehicles worldwide as of December 2010.Until June 2011, GEM...
, manufacturer of electric cars and subsidiary of Chrysler - Grand Egyptian MuseumGrand Egyptian MuseumThe Grand Egyptian Museum , also known as the Giza Museum, is a planned museum of artifacts of ancient Egypt. Described as the largest archaeological museum in the world, the USD 550 million museum is scheduled to open in 2013...
, museum in Giza - Gordon/Evernham Motorsports, NASCAR racing team
- Global Earthquake ModelGlobal Earthquake ModelThe Global Earthquake Model is a public-private partnership initiated in 2006 by the Global Science Forum of the OECD to develop global, open-source risk assessment software and tools...
, a public-private partnership initiated in 2006 by the Global Science Forum of the OECD to develop global, open-source risk assessment software and tools
Equipment
- Gas Electron MultiplierGas Electron MultiplierThe Gas Electron Multiplier is a type of gaseous ionization detector used in nuclear and particle physics and radiation detection.All gaseous ionization detectors are able to collect the electrons released by ionizing radiation, guiding them to a region with a large electric field, and thereby...
, gaseous ionization detector - German equatorial mount, type of mounting system for a telescope
- Graphite-Epoxy MotorGraphite-Epoxy MotorA Graphite-Epoxy Motor is a high-performance, solid rocket motor, used for supplemental thrust on several launch vehicles, including the Boeing Delta II and Delta IV. They are designed to allow launch vehicles to deliver larger payloads to orbit...
, a solid rocket motor used for supplemental thrust on several space launch vehicles
Software
- Graphical Environment ManagerGraphical Environment ManagerGEM was a windowing system created by Digital Research, Inc. for use with the CP/M operating system on the Intel 8088 and Motorola 68000 microprocessors...
, a windowing system created by Digital Research, Inc. (DRI) in the 1980s - Graphics Environment for MultimediaGraphics Environment for MultimediaGraphics Environment for Multimedia is a set of externals that provide OpenGL graphics functionality to Pure Data, a graphical programming language for real-time audio processing. It is free under the GNU General Public License ....
, a plugin providing 3D graphics for Pure Data - Graphics Execution ManagerGraphics Execution ManagerThe Graphics Execution Manager is a computer software system developed by Intel to do memory management for device drivers for graphics chipsets....
, a Kernel-based graphics memory manager found in Linux - Globally Executable MHPGlobally Executable MHPGlobally Executable MHP is a DVB specification of a Java based middleware for TV broadcast receivers, IPTV terminals and Blu-ray players. GEM is an ETSI standard and an ITU "Recommendation...
(GEM), an ETSI standard for interactive TV middleware based on Java - GPON encapsulation method, a method of encapsulation for GPON (Gigabit Passive optical networkPassive optical networkA passive optical network is a point-to-multipoint, fiber to the premises network architecture in which unpowered optical splitters are used to enable a single optical fiber to serve multiple premises, typically 16-128. A PON consists of an optical line terminal at the service provider's central...
) traffic
Science and research
- Gravitoelectromagnetism, deals with the theory of field effects due to moving masses
- Gyrokinetic ElectroMagneticGyrokinetic ElectroMagneticGEM is short for Gyrokinetic ElectroMagnetic. GEM is a gyrokinetic plasma turbulence simulation that uses the \delta f particle-in-cell method. It is used to study waves, instabilities and nonlinear behavior of tokamak fusion plasmas...
, global electromagnetic gyrokinetic simulation code for studying tokamak turbulence - Global Environmental Multiscale ModelGlobal Environmental Multiscale ModelThe Global Environmental Multiscale Model is an integrated forecasting and data assimilation system developed in the Recherche en Prévision Numérique , Meteorological Research Branch , and the Canadian Meteorological Centre ....
, weather forecasting and data assimilation system - Generic Equipment Model, a standard used by the semiconductor industry
- Glycosphingolipid-enriched microdomains, also known as lipid raftLipid raftThe plasma membrane of cells is made of a combination of glycosphingolipids and protein receptors organized in glycolipoprotein microdomains termed lipid rafts...
, the plasma membrane of a cell
Business and finance
- Grenoble école de managementGrenoble école de managementGrenoble Ecole de Management also known as Grenoble EM or Grenoble School of Management, was founded in 1984 by the local chamber of commerce...
, incorporating Grenoble Graduate School of Business (GGSB) - Growth Enterprise MarketGrowth Enterprise MarketGrowth Enterprise Market is a stock market set up by Stock Exchange of Hong Kong for growth companies that do not fulfill the requirements of profitability or track record....
of the Hong Kong Stock Exchange - Generalized Expertise Measure, psychometric measure of perception of employee expertise
- Global Entrepreneurship MonitorGlobal Entrepreneurship MonitorThe Global Entrepreneurship Monitor is a global study conducted by a consortium of universities.Started in 1999, it aims to analyze the level of entrepreneurship occurring in a wide basket of countries...
, a global report regarding the level of nascent entrepreneurship
Other uses
- Gender Empowerment MeasureGender Empowerment MeasureThe United Nation's Development Programme's attempt to measure the extent of gender equality across the globe's countries, based on estimates of women's relative economic income, high-paying positions, and access to professional and parliamentary positions....
, indicator used by the United Nations as a measure of inequalities between men's and women's opportunities in a country