Associations to the word «Gal»

Wiktionary

GAL, noun. A gallon.
GAL, noun. (colloquial) (dated) An adolescent girl or young woman.
GAL, noun. A galileo.
GAL, proper noun. Alternative form of Gal.
GAL, symbol. (metrology) The symbol for the cgs unit of acceleration, gal or galileo.
㏿, symbol. Galileo

Dictionary definition

GAL, noun. United States liquid unit equal to 4 quarts or 3.785 liters.
GAL, noun. A unit of gravitational acceleration equal to one centimeter per second per second (named after Galileo).
GAL, noun. Alliterative term for girl (or woman).

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats