To use a grading system based on the scale of performance of a group to normalize a right-skewed grade distribution (with more lower scores) into a bell curve, so that more can receive higher grades, regardless of their actual knowledge of the subject; to curve a grade.

The grain of timber which is transverse to the annular rings or plates; the direction of the medullary rays in oak and some other timbers.

the child of a man's son: a grandchild to whom one is the paternal grandfather

the child of a woman's daughter: a grandchild to whom one is the maternal grandmother

(space science, NASA) Initialism of Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory.

plural of grand total

The official nickname for the state of Arizona in the United States of America.

(linguistics) A generative grammar, especially of a natural language, developed in the Chomskyan tradition of phrase structure grammars (as opposed to dependency grammars), and involving the use of defined operations called transformations to produce new sentences from existing ones.

The force resulting from a pressure gradient

A city and municipality of the Azores, Portugal. / A Portuguese city in the Azores. / A city in the northeast of Santo Antão, Cape Verde / One of the longest streams of Santo Antão, Cape Verde