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Also g. An acceleration equal to the acceleration of gravity, 980.665 centimeters per second per second (approximately 32.2 feet per second per second at sea level), used as a unit of stress measurement of bodies that are being influenced by acceleration.
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Hanifan, R. (2014). G. In: Concise Dictionary of Engineering. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-07839-7_7
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