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Gram is a unit of measurement of mass. Otherwise, "gram" may refer to:
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Places
- Gram (Denmark), a town in Denmark
- Gram municipality, a municipality in Denmark
- Gram Castle, a castle in Denmark
- Mount Gram, Albania
People
- Zénobe Gramme (1826 – 1901), Belgian electrical engineer
- Jørgen Pedersen Gram (1850 – 1916), Danish mathematician and actuary
- Hans Christian Gram (1853 – 1938), Danish scientist who invented Gram staining
- Peder Gram (1881 – 1956), Danish composer and organist
- Jason Gram (born 1984), Australian rules footballer
- Gram Parsons (1946 – 1973), American singer and musician
Mythology and fiction
- Gram (mythology), a sword in Norse mythology
- Gram of Denmark, a legendary Danish king
- Gram (Middle-earth), a King of Rohan from J. R. R. Tolkien's fiction
- Mount Gram (Middle-earth), a fictional place in Tolkien's writings
- Grams, grandmother of the Charmed Ones on the WB television series Charmed
Science and technology
- Gram staining, a method of distinguishing bacteria
- GRAM domain, a domain found in some membrane-associated proteins
- Grid Resource Allocation Manager, a component of the Globus Toolkit in grid computing
- Gramian matrix, used in mathematics to test for linear independence of functions
Agriculture and horticulture
- Gram, from Latin granum (seed) via Portuguese and then languages of the Indian subcontinent, is sometimes used to refer to chickpeas and other pulses
- Green gram = Mung bean
- Bengal gram = Chickpea
- Red gram = Pigeon pea
- Black gram = urad
- Horse gram
- It may also refer to a lentil
- Gram, the abbreviation for the orchid genus Grammatophyllum
See also
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