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noun

• A mythical human of very great size.

• Specifically, any of the gigantes, the race of giants in the Greek mythology.

• A very tall and large person.

• A tall species of a particular animal or plant.

• A star that is considerably more luminous than a main sequence star of the same temperature (e.g. red giant, blue giant).

• An Ethernet packet that exceeds the medium's maximum packet size of 1,518 bytes.

• A very large organisation.

  Example: The retail giant is set to acquire two more struggling high-street chains.

• A person of extraordinary strength or powers, bodily or intellectual.

• Jotun

adjective

• Very large.