G5

G5, G.V, G.5 or G-5 is a two character combination which may refer to any of many items, classifications, and entities:

Groups and organizations

• G5 nations (Group of Five)

• five of the world's leading economies in mid-1970s — France, Germany, Japan, the United Kingdom, and the United States
• the leading five emerging economies in mid-2000s — Brazil, People's Republic of China, India, Mexico, and South Africa

• G5 group, former group of the largest West European countries: France, Germany, Italy, the United Kingdom, and Spain, now expanded to G6 (EU)

Education

• The G5, an elite group of British universities which are consistently ranked top in the UK each year, comprising:

• Cambridge University
• Imperial College London
• London School of Economics
• Oxford University
• University College London

Others

G5 is

• the IATA code for China Express Airlines.
• the in-game ID used by the 2010 World Cyber Games United States Champion of Starcraft:Broodwar, Eric Rothmuller.
• in NATO the Assistant Chief Of Staff (ACOS) or senior staff officer on Civil/Military Co-ordination (CIMIC) and Public Affairs at the division level and higher (military shorthand).

Standards and classifications

• G5 paper, an ISO 216 "Metric Paper" format, 169 × 239 mm
• G5 star, a subclass of G-class stars
• Group 5 element, part of the periodic table of elements
• G5 bipin, a lamp standard
• Fifth generation jet fighter, the newest and most advanced generation of fighter aircraft

Products and equipment

• G5 howitzer, a South African howitzer
• Canon PowerShot G5, a digital camera
• Fiat G.5, a Fiat aircraft
• Gulfstream G500, private jet aircraft (GulfStream V family)
• LNER Class G5, the post-1923 designation for NER Class O steam locomotives
• PRR G5, a 4-6-0 steam locomotive built for the Pennsylvania Railroad
• Logitech G5, a gaming mouse with variable weight and sensitivity settings
• Mazda G engine#G5, a Mazda piston engine
• Motorola G5 project, the failed Motorola PowerPC project to succeed its own PPC 74x
• Ping G5, a golf club produced by Ping
• Pontiac G5, an automobile
• PowerPC G5, a microprocessor branding used by Apple Inc
  • Power Mac G5, Apple's marketing name for models of the Power Macintosh which contain the IBM PowerPC G5 CPU
  • iMac G5, a series of desktop Macintosh computers designed and built by Apple Inc. using the PowerPC chip architecture
• G.V, a German designation for several World War I heavy bombers:
  • AEG G.V, a biplane bomber aircraft of World War I, a further refinement of the AEG G.IV
  • Gotha G.V, a heavy bomber used by the Luftstreitkräfte (Imperial German Air Service) during World War I
• G-5 class motor torpedo boat, a World War II Soviet torpedo boat
• Empirix Hammer G5, a functional and load testing VoIP call generator by Empirix Inc
• G5, a model from the George Foreman Grill series

Genetics

• The former haplogroup G5 (Y-DNA), a human Y chromosome haplogroup, now known as haplogroup G2c

See also

• 5G (disambiguation)