Giant

  1. Noun.  (baseball) A player on the team the San Francisco Giants.
  2. Noun.  (American football) A player on the team the New York Giants.
  3. Noun.  A mythical human of very great size.
  4. Noun.  (mythology) Specifically, any of the Gigantes, the race of giants in the Greek mythology.
  5. Noun.  A very tall person.
  6. Noun.  A tall species of a particular animal or plant.
  7. Noun.  (astronomy) A star that is considerably more luminous than a main sequence star of the same temperature (eg. red giant, blue giant).
  8. Noun.  (computing) An Ethernet packet that exceeds the medium's maximum packet size of 1,518 bytes.
  9. Noun.  A very large organisation.
  10. Adjective.  Very large.

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