Grit
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- GRIT (gene)RICS (gene)Rho GTPase-activating protein 32 is a protein that in humans is encoded by the RICS gene. RICS has two known isoforms, RICS that are expressed primarily at neurite growth cones, and at the post synaptic membranes, and PX-RICS which is more widely expressed in the endoplasmic reticulum, Golgi...
, also known as Arhgap32 or PX-RICS - Grit (newspaper)Grit (newspaper)Grit is a magazine, formerly a weekly newspaper, popular in rural areas throughout the United States during much of the 20th century. It carried the subtitle America's Greatest Family Newspaper. In the early 1930s, it targeted small town and rural families with 14 pages plus a fiction supplement...
, a U.S. periodical founded as a newspaper in 1882 - Grit (album)Grit (album)Grit is the last studio album by Scottish celtic fusion artist Martyn Bennett. It was released October 13, 2003 on the Real World label.The song was a marked departure from his previous albums in that Martyn's was reliant on using samples as he was too weak to play his instruments...
, by Celtic fusion musician Martyn Bennett - Grit (album), by Norwegian rock band Madrugada
- Grit (grain)Grit (grain)Grit is an almost extinct word for bran, chaff, mill-dust also for oats that have been husked but not ground, or that have been only coarsely ground—coarse oatmeal...
, branBranBran is the hard outer layer of grain and consists of combined aleurone and pericarp. Along with germ, it is an integral part of whole grains, and is often produced as a by-product of milling in the production of refined grains. When bran is removed from grains, the grains lose a portion of their...
, chaffChaffChaff is the dry, scaly protective casings of the seeds of cereal grain, or similar fine, dry, scaly plant material such as scaly parts of flowers, or finely chopped straw...
, mill-dust (meanings that have gone obsolete) also coarse oatmealOatmealOatmeal is ground oat groats , or a porridge made from oats . Oatmeal can also be ground oat, steel-cut oats, crushed oats, or rolled oats....
. - GritsGritsGrits are a food of American Indian origin common in the Southern United States and mainly eaten at breakfast. They consist of coarsely ground corn, or sometimes alkali-treated corn . They are also sometimes called sofkee or sofkey from the Muskogee language word...
, a corn-based food common in the Southern United States - GRITSGRITSGRITS, also known as G.R.I.T.S., is a Christian Hip Hop group from Nashville, Tennessee. Their name is an acronym, which stands for "Grammatical Revolution In The Spirit." GRITS is made up of Stacey "Coffee" Jones and Teron "Bonafide" Carter, both of whom were DC Talk dancers.Their song "Ooh Aah"...
, a Christian hip-hop group - Grit size, measurement of abrasives used in sandpaper and other polishing materials
- Grit binGrit binA grit bin or salt bin is an item of street furniture, commonly found in countries where freezing temperatures and snowfall occur, which holds a mixture of salt and grit which is spread over roads if they have snow or ice on them...
, used to hold rock salt - The GritThe GritThe Grit is a vegetarian restaurant located at 199 Prince Avenue in Athens, Georgia, US.The restaurant opened in 1986, in a 19th century structure located at Hoyt Street Station...
, vegetarian restaurant in Athens, Georgia, US - Clear GritsClear GritsClear Grits were reformers in the Province of Upper Canada, a British colony that is now the Province of Ontario, Canada. Their support was concentrated among southwestern Ontario farmers, who were frustrated and disillusioned by the 1849 Reform government of Robert Baldwin and Louis-Hippolyte...
, political reformers in the Province of Upper Canada - Grits, colloquial term for the Liberal Party of CanadaLiberal Party of CanadaThe Liberal Party of Canada , colloquially known as the Grits, is the oldest federally registered party in Canada. In the conventional political spectrum, the party sits between the centre and the centre-left. Historically the Liberal Party has positioned itself to the left of the Conservative...
- Grit, RubyRuby (programming language)Ruby is a dynamic, reflective, general-purpose object-oriented programming language that combines syntax inspired by Perl with Smalltalk-like features. Ruby originated in Japan during the mid-1990s and was first developed and designed by Yukihiro "Matz" Matsumoto...
library for object oriented read/write access to GitGit (software)Git is a distributed revision control system with an emphasis on speed. Git was initially designed and developed by Linus Torvalds for Linux kernel development. Every Git working directory is a full-fledged repository with complete history and full revision tracking capabilities, not dependent on...
repositories. - Grit (personality trait)Grit (personality trait)Grit in psychology is a positive, non-cognitive trait, based on an individual’s passion for a particular long-term goal or endstate coupled with a powerful motivation to achieve their respective objective...
- G.R.I.T.S, girls raised in the south
Grit may also be:
- GritstoneGritstoneGritstone or Grit is a hard, coarse-grained, siliceous sandstone. This term is especially applied to such sandstones that are quarried for building material. British gritstone was used for millstones to mill flour, to grind wood into pulp for paper and for grindstones to sharpen blades. "Grit" is...
, a sedimentary rock composed of coarse sand grains and small stones - GastrolithGastrolithA gastrolith, also called a stomach stone or gizzard stones, is a rock held inside a gastrointestinal tract. Gastroliths are retained in the muscular gizzard and used to grind food in animals lacking suitable grinding teeth. The grain size depends upon the size of the animal and the gastrolith's...
, abrasive substances eaten by some animals to aid in digestion - Shell gritShell gritShell grit is grit from shells. It is used for, among other things, as source of calcium for birds.Other uses include protecting plants from slugs or snails and in aquariums.-External links:...
, source of calcium for birds - Grit, a character from the video game Advance WarsAdvance WarsAdvance Wars, known in Japan as is a turn-based tactics video game developed for the Game Boy Advance by Intelligent Systems and published by Nintendo. It was released in North America on September 10, 2001, but put on hold in Japan and Europe due to the following day's terrorist attacks in the USA...
- Grit ŠadeikoGrit ŠadeikoGrit Šadeiko is an Estonian heptathlete.Her younger sister Grete Šadeiko is also a heptathlete.-Achievements:-External links:...
(born 1989), Estonian heptathlete - In Grinding (abrasive cutting)Grinding (abrasive cutting)Grinding is an abrasive machining process that uses a grinding wheel as the cutting tool.A wide variety of machines are used for grinding:* Hand-cranked knife-sharpening stones * Handheld power tools such as angle grinders and die grinders...
, a cutting material, or the classification of such a material by size.