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Gee  
  Using the standard letter designation in physics for gravity.  

This is, as far as I know, the first usage of this constant as equivalent to the word 'gravity'.

"I've more muscle than you, and I'm used to greater gee, being from earth. The main thing, though, is that I've had training in free jumps. If you've never jumped free, you can't imagine what it's like."
Technovelgy from Sacred Martian Pig (Idris' Pig), by Margaret St. Clair.
Published by Startling Stories in 1949
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Martian buildings, even public ones, rarely had levitators or even lifts. The lesser gee made stairclimbing less onerous than on Terra, and Martians of both sexes insisted it wasn't reasonable to avoid exercise.

Poul Anderson, writing in Tiger by the Tail in 1951, was probably the first to use it in the standard sense of one Earth gravity:

He was humanoid to a high degree, perhaps somewhat stockier than Terrestrial average—and come to think of it, the artificial gravity was a little higher than one gee...

I think I first encountered this in Robert Heinlein's Double Star:

"The Can Do - that's this bucket - is about to rendezvous with the Go For Broke, which is a high-gee torchship."

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