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

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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
  • US Navy hull designation for guided-missile cruisers

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
  • City Games of China, former name for the China National Youth Games

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
  • Changi Airport MRT Line, a part of East West MRT Line in Singapore
  • Caribbean guilder, a currency that has Cg as its symbol

See also