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- Geosynchronous orbit
- an orbit that permits a communications satellite to maintain a fixed position relative to the surface of the earth
- GPS (global positioning system)
- a system that uses satellites to provide location information
- Functional specifications
- specifications that describe the logic of an information system from the user's perspective
- GIGO
- Garbage in, Garbage out
- GIF
- A popular format for bit-mapped files
- General-purpose computer
- computer systems that are designed with the flexibility to do a variety of tasks, such as CAD, payroll processing, climate control, and so on
- Gigahertz (GHz)
- Billions of clock cycles per second
- Gb
- see gigabit
- GFLOPS
- a billion FLOPS (See FLOPS)
- GB
- see gigabyte
- General system design
- that portion of the system development process in which the target system ,is defined in general
- Gigabyte (GB)
- one billion bytes
- Gigabit (Gb)
- one billion bits
- Function-based information system
- an information system designed for the exclusive support of a specific application area, such as inventory management or accounting
- Graphical user interface (GUI)
- a user-friendly interface that lets users interact with the system by pointing to processing options with a point-and-draw device
- Grammar and style checker
- an add-on program to word processing software that highlights grammatical concerns and deviations from effective writing style in a word processing document