gru
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.75 in modern English
4
Scrabble Score
3
Letters
1
Syllables
3
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Initialism of gated recurrent unit.
name
The Main Intelligence Directorate — the Soviet and then the Russian military intelligence agency.
Example Sentences
- "Apparently nobody ever expects the GRU, Russian Military Intelligence."
- "A team of investigators claim to have unmasked a deep-cover spy from Russia’s military intelligence agency, the GRU, who spent a decade posing as a Latin American jewellery designer and partied with Nato staff based in Naples."
Etymology
From Russian ГРУ (GRU), through phonetic transliteration of Гла́вное Разве́дывательное Управле́ние (Glávnoje Razvédyvatelʹnoje Upravlénije) and acronymizing.
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: ГРУ