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gaia

Definitions, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for gaia.

Editorial note

The Gaia mission should be able to measure angles as small as 20 millionths of an arc-second.[2] 1.

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Quick take

A female given name inspired by Mother Earth.

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of gaia gathered in one view.

noun

A female given name inspired by Mother Earth.

noun

(Greek mythology) A Greek goddess, the personification of the earth, and one of the primordial deities from whom all the others descend.

noun

(ecology) The ecosystem of the Earth regarded as a self-regulating superorganism.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for gaia.

noun

A female given name inspired by Mother Earth.

noun

(Greek mythology) A Greek goddess, the personification of the earth, and one of the primordial deities from whom all the others descend.

noun

(ecology) The ecosystem of the Earth regarded as a self-regulating superorganism.

Example sentences

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The Gaia mission should be able to measure angles as small as 20 millionths of an arc-second.[2] 1.

2

For those of you with Gaia GPS, 2.0 is coming out soon, and includes GPX imports among other stuff.

3

It seems that this eventually would pave the road to some kind of Gaia theory.

4

The good thing you are not one of those Gaia nutjobs still better than nothing.

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I make Gaia GPS, so I care about people being able to locate themselves on a downloaded map, while offline.

6

> let you use Gaia (the user interface of FirefoxOS) on your Android device, as an alternative homescreen.

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I could see taking it a step further: instead of a Gaia theory, by which I assume you mean that the Earth is a sentient system, why not have all things that are causally connected be part of a universal consciousnesses?

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For example Servo and Gaia are both fully GitHub-centric.

9

I use Gaia GPS for my backcountry hikes which is available for iOS/Android.

10

The Gaia space observatory has a gigapixel camera.

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> The reason for this is because gecko determines how the user interface > (implemented in the gaia layer) actually behaves.

12

I like hiking and recording tracks using Gaia GPS, but have always been annoyed that GPS would be turned off when using airplane mode on my iPhone.

Quote examples

1

Aren't savvy English cattle farmers going to say "Oh-my-Gaia this is Frankenfood!

2

While I'm sure some environmentalist devotions rise (sink?) to the level of unexamined religious belief, most of them push silly pseudoscientific hypotheses ("Gaia") which do not, in fact, actually get much scientific literature to support them.

3

Yep, we had another rejection yesterday for a "pre-existing condition." Our latest release of Gaia GPS was just a handful of bug fixes - no feature changes - and Apple rejected it on the grounds that our map screen didn't warn the user they were offline.

Proper noun examples

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On a side note, I didn't enjoy at all the last books about Gaia.

Frequently asked questions

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How do you use gaia in a sentence?

The Gaia mission should be able to measure angles as small as 20 millionths of an arc-second.[2] 1.

What does gaia mean?

A female given name inspired by Mother Earth.

What part of speech is gaia?

gaia is commonly used as noun.