Great Stink: (1858) The Great Stink or The Big Stink was a time in the summer of 1858 during which the smell of untreated sewage almost caused the abandonment of the biggest city in the world.

 

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Great Stink: (1858) The Great Stink or The Big Stink was a time in the summer of 1858 during which the smell of untreated sewage almost caused the abandonment of the biggest city in the world.

Greater Fool Theory: Used in the context of general equities. Potential customer who may have an interest in participating in a particular trade if customer's past inquiry or activity is any indication.

Greater Benefic: A term reserved for the planet Jupiter which, according to ancient beliefs, was responsible for life's greatest blessings.

Greater Malefic: A term applied to Saturn, the planet ancients believed to generate the evils in life.

Stinker: A coffee with no particular positive characteristics and without negative characteristics.

International Great Lakes Datum: Mean water level at Rimouski/Pointe-au-Pere, Quebec, on the Gulf of St. Lawrence over the period 1970 through 1988, from which geopotential elevations (geopotential differences) throughout t . . . View Full Definition

Great Year: The astrological year based on the time it takes Earth's axis to complete on revolution around the pole of the ecliptic, about twenty-five thousand years. A Great Year is divided into twelve . . . View Full Definition

Great Vowel Shift: A remarkable change in the pronunciation of English, thought to have occurred largely between 1400 and 1450. Much of Middle English poetry (including all the works of Chaucer, Gower, Langlan . . . View Full Definition

Great Circle: A circle described on the surface of a sphere (Earth, for example) so that its plane passes through the center of the sphere.

Great Diurnal Range (GT): The difference in height between mean higher high-water and mean lower low water. The expression may also be used in its contracted form, diurnal range.