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Geocode

A geographic locator that includes the city, state, country, ZIP Code, longitude, and latitude down to degrees.

GIS

Geographic Information Systems. Provides geographic information about provided addresses, latitudinal and longitudinal coordinates, and other geographic conventions.

global deployment

The process of installing, configuring, testing, and deploying Siebel eBusiness Applications in more than one locale and language.

Glued period

The time period, starting from the present time, when all activities on a schedule are automatically locked and may not be rescheduled. No activities should be rescheduled within the Glued period. However, exceptions can be set manually on the Dispatch Board.

granularity

The level of detail of the records in a table.

group pension

A group pension is the retirement or pension plan bought by a company or organization as a benefit to the employees or members.


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 Published: 22 April 2003