# What does Gradle stand for?

**URL:** <https://discuss.gradle.org/t/what-does-gradle-stand-for/5812>\
**Category:** Old Forum Archive\
**Created:** [July 24, 2014, 9:18am UTC](https://discuss.gradle.org/t/what-does-gradle-stand-for/5812 "2014-07-24T09:18:00Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![wdavid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/f05b48/32.png) [@wdavid](https://discuss.gradle.org/u/wdavid)\
**Post date:** [July 24, 2014, 9:18am UTC](https://discuss.gradle.org/t/what-does-gradle-stand-for/5812/1 "2014-07-24T09:18:00Z")

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what does Gradle stand for ?

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**Author:** ![Lance](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/gradle/user_avatar/discuss.gradle.org/lance/32/787_2.png) [@Lance](https://discuss.gradle.org/u/Lance)\
**Post date:** [July 24, 2014, 9:21am UTC](https://discuss.gradle.org/t/what-does-gradle-stand-for/5812/2 "2014-07-24T09:21:00Z")

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[http://forums.gradle.org/gradle/topics/where\_does\_the\_name\_gradle\_come\_from](http://forums.gradle.org/gradle/topics/where_does_the_name_gradle_come_from)

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**Author:** ![wdavid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/f05b48/32.png) [@wdavid](https://discuss.gradle.org/u/wdavid)\
**Post date:** [July 24, 2014, 9:40am UTC](https://discuss.gradle.org/t/what-does-gradle-stand-for/5812/3 "2014-07-24T09:40:00Z")

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Thanks

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**Author:** ![David\_Karr](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/gradle/user_avatar/discuss.gradle.org/david_karr/32/145_2.png) [@David\_Karr](https://discuss.gradle.org/u/David_Karr)\
**Post date:** [July 24, 2014, 1:55pm UTC](https://discuss.gradle.org/t/what-does-gradle-stand-for/5812/4 "2014-07-24T13:55:00Z")

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Gradle stands for better living conditions for build scripts.

🙂