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gim

/d͡ʒɪm/

gim noun: edible seaweed in Korean cuisine.

Noun

gim (uncountable)

  1. Edible seaweed in Korean cuisine.

Adjective

gim (comparative more gim, superlative most gim)

  1. (UK, archaic, dialectal) Neat; spruce.

Proper noun (1) capitalized: GIM

GIM

  1. (attributive, particle) The mechanism through which flavour-changing neutral currents (FCNCs) are suppressed in loop diagrams.
    • GIM mechanism
    • GIM suppression

Proper noun (2) capitalized: Gim

Gim (plural Gims)

  1. (alternative) Alternative form of Kim (“Korean surname”); A surname from Korean, variant of Kim

Forms of gim

Noun
alternative formkim
Adjective
comparativemore gim
superlativemost gim
Proper noun
pluralGims

Origin of gim

Korean 김 (gim)

Compare gimp (adjective).

Initialism of the surnames of Sheldon Glashow, John Iliopoulos, and Luciano Maiani, who published on the topic in 1970.

Questions about gim

What does gim mean?
Gim means edible seaweed in Korean cuisine.
What part of speech is gim?
Gim can be a noun, an adjective or a proper noun.
How do you pronounce gim?
Gim is pronounced /d͡ʒɪm/.

Words near gim in the dictionary

  1. Gilyaks
  2. Gilyard
  3. Gilyards
  4. Gilze en Rijen
  5. Gilău
  6. gim
  7. gim-peg
  8. gim-pegs
  9. Gimagaan
  10. GImages
  11. gimbal

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