Associations to the word «Gy»

Wiktionary

GY, symbol. (metrology) The symbol for gray, a unit of absorbed dose.
GY, symbol. Gigayear
GY, symbol. The ISO 3166-1 two-letter (alpha-2) code for Guyana.

Dictionary definition

GY, noun. The SI unit of energy absorbed from ionizing radiation; equal to the absorption of one joule of radiation energy by one kilogram of matter; one gray equals 100 rad.

Wise words

Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.
Nathaniel Hawthorne