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GHG

GHG is the initialism of greenhouse gas.

Meaning of greenhouse gas

Noun

greenhouse gas (countable and uncountable, plural greenhouse gases or greenhouse gasses)

  1. Any gas (such as carbon dioxide, a chlorofluorocarbon (CFC), or methane) that contributes to the greenhouse effect when released into the atmosphere by absorbing infrared radiation emitted by a planet's surface, thus increasing the surface temperature.
    • Termites and cows account for much greenhouse gas.
    Synonyms:
    GHG

Forms of GHG

pluralGHGs

Questions about GHG

What is GHG the initialism of?
GHG is the initialism of greenhouse gas.

Words near GHG in the dictionary

  1. ghewar
  2. ghey
  3. gheyer
  4. gheyest
  5. GHF
  6. GHG
  7. GHGs
  8. ghi
  9. Ghia
  10. Ghibeline
  11. Ghibelines

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Adapted from Wiktionary: GHG (page history and authors); greenhouse gas (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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