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Noun
Definition: any organization or party whose uniforms or badges are grey; "the Confederate army was a vast grey"
Definition: the SI unit of energy absorbed from ionizing radiation; equal to the absorption of one joule of radiation energy by one kilogram of matter; one gray equals 100 rad
Definition: English radiobiologist in whose honor the gray (the SI unit of energy for the absorbed dose of radiation) was named (1905-1965)
Definition: English poet best known for his elegy written in a country churchyard (1716-1771)
Definition: American navigator who twice circumnavigated the globe and who discovered the Columbia River (1755-1806)
Definition: United States botanist who specialized in North American flora and who was an early supporter of Darwin's theories of evolution (1810-1888)
Definition: An achromatic colour intermediate between black and white.
Definition: In the International System of Units, the derived unit of absorbed dose of radiation (radiation absorbed by a patient); one joule of energy absorbed per kilogram of the patient's mass. Symbol: Gy
Verb
Definition: To become gray.
Adjective
Definition: of an achromatic color of any lightness intermediate between the extremes of white and black; "the little grey cells"; "gray flannel suit"; "a man with greyish hair"
Definition: showing characteristics of age, especially having grey or white hair; "whose beard with age is hoar"-Coleridge; "nodded his hoary head"
Definition: used to signify the Confederate forces in the American Civil War (who wore grey uniforms); "a stalwart grey figure"
Definition: intermediate in character or position; "a grey area between clearly legal and strictly illegal"
Definition: Having a color somewhere between white and black, as the ash of an ember.