Gem
Categories: Three-letter acronym disambiguations
Gem is short for:
- a cut rock or mineral, a gemstone
- an engine made by Rolls-Royce plc, the Gem, primarily for use in the AugustaWestland Lynx helicopter.
- GEM was a GUI operating system developed by Digital Research in the early 1980's long before Microsoft Windows 3.1
- The name that Dr Leonard McKoy gave to a mute and compassionate young woman empath in the third season episode of Star Trek: The Original Series, The Empath
Jem (which sounds like gem) could be:
- a television animated series which aired in the mid-1980s, see Jem (animated)
- the musician Jemma (Jem) Griffiths: see Jem (singer).
- a character in Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird
- the 1980 book by Frederik Pohl, see Jem (book).
- an Ibanez electric guitar designed by musician Steve Vai