"GRU" meaning in English

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Proper name

Etymology: From Russian ГРУ (GRU), through phonetic spelling of Гла́вное Разве́дывательное Управле́ние (Glávnoje Razvédyvatelʹnoje Upravlénije) and acronymizing. Etymology templates: {{bor|en|ru|ГРУ}} Russian ГРУ (GRU) Head templates: {{en-prop}} GRU
  1. The Main Intelligence Directorate — the Soviet and then the Russian military intelligence agency. Related terms: FSB, KGB, NKVD, SVR Translations (Soviet and Russian GRU): GRU [neuter] (Polish), ГРУ (GRU) [neuter] (Russian)
    Sense id: en-GRU-en-name-ACZtjs25 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Entries with translation boxes, Pages with 2 entries, Pages with entries, Terms with Polish translations, Terms with Russian translations Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 82 18 Disambiguation of Entries with translation boxes: 89 11 Disambiguation of Pages with 2 entries: 81 19 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 85 15 Disambiguation of Terms with Polish translations: 86 14 Disambiguation of Terms with Russian translations: 96 4
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 2

Noun

Forms: GRUs [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} GRU (plural GRUs)
  1. (artificial intelligence) Initialism of gated recurrent unit. Tags: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism Alternative form of: gated recurrent unit Categories (topical): Artificial intelligence
    Sense id: en-GRU-en-noun-Tj2XlTjI
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 1
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