CG explained

CG, Cg or cg may refer to:

Arts and entertainment

• Chaotic Good, an alignment in the role-playing game Dungeons & Dragons
• Classical guitar, a type of guitar

Businesses and organizations

Businesses

• Central of Georgia Railway, between Macon and Savannah, Georgia in the US
• Chappe et Gessalin, a French automobile maker
• Chaudhary Group, a multinational company based in Nepal
• Cigna, formed in Hartford in 1865 as the Connecticut General Life Insurance Company
• Colorado General Hospital, now known as University of Colorado Hospital
• PNG Air, an airline from Papua New Guinea (IATA code CG)
• The Carlyle Group, a private equity firm (stock symbol CG)

Military units

• Ceremonial Guard, an ad hoc military unit in the Canadian Forces
• Coast guard, a national organization responsible for various services at sea

Political parties

• Galician Coalition, a Galician political party with a Galician nationalist and centrist ideology
• Galician Convergence, a Galician political party with a moderate nationalist ideology, which describes itself as centrist, socially progressive and economically liberal

Other organizations

• Common Ground (NYC), a non-profit that builds and runs supportive housing in New York City and elsewhere
• Community Games, an Irish voluntary organisation for young people to experience sporting and cultural activities

Mathematics, science, and technology

Mathematics and computing

• Cg (programming language), developed by NVIDIA
• Categorial grammar, a term used for a family of formalisms in natural language syntax
• Character generator, a device or software that produces static or animated text (such as crawls and rolls) for keying into a video stream for broadcast television
• Computational geometry, the study of algorithms to solve problems stated in terms of geometry
• Computer graphics, graphics created using computers and, more generally, the representation and manipulation of image data by a computer with help from specialized software and hardware
  • Computer-generated imagery, application of computer graphics to create or contribute to images in art
• Conceptual graph, a formalism for knowledge representation
• Conjugate gradient method, an algorithm for the numerical solution of particular systems of linear equations
• Constraint Grammar, a methodological paradigm for natural language processing
• Coherency Granule, usually the size of a CPU cache line
• Clock gating, a way to lower clock tree power in an integrated circuit

Other uses in science and technology

• Centigram (cg), a unit of mass in the SI system
• Center of gravity, a point in a body that may be used to simplify description of gravitational interactions
• Cloud-to-ground lightning, a type of lightning
• Carbon group, also called group 14
• Chorionic gonadotropin, a hormone produced by the placenta during pregnancy
• A US Navy hull classification symbol: Guided-missile cruiser (CG)
• Phosgene (military designation CG), a chemical weapon used during World War I

Places

• Chhattisgarh, a state of India
• Crna Gora, Montenegro
• Democratic Republic of the Congo (FIPS Pub 10-4 and obsolete NATO digram)
• Republic of the Congo (ISO country code), a state in Central Africa
  • .cg, the Internet country code top-level domain (ccTLD) for the Republic of the Congo
• Cypress Gardens, an American theme park near Winter Haven, Florida, that operated from 1936 to 2009

Ranks and titles

• Certified Genealogist, licensed by the Board for Certification of Genealogists
• Commandant-General, a rank in several counties and is generally equivalent to that of Commandant
• Commanding General, a commanding officer in the military that holds a general officer rank

Other uses

• Complete game, in baseball, the act of a pitcher pitching an entire game without the benefit of a relief pitcher
• Corporate Governance, a system of law and approaches by which corporations are directed and controlled