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From: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition | Date: 2008 | Copyright information

G 7th letter of the alphabet . It is a usual symbol for a voiced velar stop, as in the English go. It was originally a differentiated form of Greek gamma, which has C as its formal Roman correspondent. In musical notation G represents a note on the scale. In physics, G stands for the gravitational constant (see gravitation ).

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