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