CG, Cg or cg may refer to:

Arts and entertainment

Chaotic Good In the ''Dungeons & Dragons'' (''D&D'') fantasy role-playing game, alignment is a categorization of the ethics, ethical and morality, moral perspective of player characters, non-player characters, and creatures. Most versions of the game featur ...

, an alignment in the role-playing game ''Dungeons & Dragons'' *

Classical guitar The classical guitar, also known as Spanish guitar, is a member of the guitar family used in classical music and other styles. An acoustic wooden string (music), string instrument with strings made of catgut, gut or nylon, it is a precursor of the ...

, a type of guitar

Businesses and organizations

Businesses

Central of Georgia Railway The Central of Georgia Railway started as the Central Rail Road and Canal Company in 1833. As a way to better attract investment capital, the railroad changed its name to Central Rail Road and Banking Company of Georgia. This railroad was constr ...

, between Macon and Savannah, Georgia in the US *

Chappe et Gessalin Chappe et Gessalin is the short-form of the name of French coachbuilder "Carrosserie Chappe Frères et Gessalin". The company built automobile bodies and did contract assembly for other automobile manufacturers. It was also the parent of Automobil ...

, a French automobile maker * Chaudhary Group, a multinational company based in Nepal *

Cigna The Cigna Group is an American multinational for-profit managed healthcare and insurance company based in Bloomfield, Connecticut. Its insurance subsidiaries are major providers of medical, dental, disability, life and accident insurance and r ...

, 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 The Carlyle Group Inc. is an American multinational company with operations in private equity, alternative asset management and financial services. As of 2023, the company had $426 billion of assets under management. Carlyle specializes in ...

, a private equity firm (stock symbol CG)

Military units

* Ceremonial Guard, an ''ad hoc'' military unit in the Canadian Forces *

Coast guard A coast guard or coastguard is a Maritime Security Regimes, maritime security organization of a particular country. The term embraces wide range of responsibilities in different countries, from being a heavily armed military force with cust ...

, a national organization responsible for various services at sea *US Navy hull designation for guided-missile

cruiser A cruiser is a type of warship. Modern cruisers are generally the largest ships in a fleet after aircraft carriers and amphibious assault ships, and can usually perform several operational roles from search-and-destroy to ocean escort to sea ...

Political parties

Galician Coalition Galician Coalition ( Galician: ''Coalición Galega'', CG) is a political party in Galicia, Spain with a Galician nationalist and centrist ideology. Since 2012 CG is part of the coalition Compromiso por Galicia. History Coalition CG was born a ...

, a Galician political party with a Galician nationalist and centrist ideology *

Galician Convergence Galician Convergence (''Converxencia Galega'' in Galician language, CG) is a Galician political party with a moderate nationalist ideology, and which describes itself as centrist, socially progressive and economically liberal, europeanist, inter ...

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

Other organizations

Common Ground (NYC) Breaking Ground, formerly Common Ground, is a nonprofit social services organization in New York City whose goal is to create high-quality permanent and transitional housing for the homeless. Its philosophy holds that supportive housing costs su ...

, a non-profit that builds and runs supportive housing in New York City and elsewhere *

Community Games The Community Games, known for sponsorship reasons as the Cairn Community Games, is an Irish independent voluntary organisation and national governing body which seeks to provide opportunities for children and young people to participate in a ran ...

, an Irish voluntary organisation for young people to experience sporting and cultural activities

Mathematics, science, and technology

Mathematics and computing

Cg (programming language) Cg (short for C for Graphics) and High-Level Shader Language (HLSL) are two names given to a high-level shading language developed by Nvidia and Microsoft for programming shaders. Cg/HLSL is based on the C programming language and although ...

, developed by NVIDIA * Categorial grammar, a term used for a family of formalisms in natural language syntax *

Character generator A character generator, often abbreviated as CG, is a device or software that produces static or animated text (such as news crawls and credits rolls) for keying into a video stream. Modern character generators are computer-based, and they can ...

, 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 Computer graphics deals with generating images and art with the aid of computers. Computer graphics is a core technology in digital photography, film, video games, digital art, cell phone and computer displays, and many specialized applications. ...

, 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 Computer-generated imagery (CGI) is a specific-technology or application of computer graphics for creating or improving images in Digital art, art, Publishing, printed media, Training simulation, simulators, videos and video games. These images ...

, application of computer graphics to create or contribute to images in art *

Conceptual graph A conceptual graph (CG) is a formalism for knowledge representation. In the first published paper on CGs, John F. Sowa used them to represent the conceptual schemas used in database systems. The first book on CGs applied them to a wide range of ...

, a formalism for knowledge representation *

Conjugate gradient method In mathematics, the conjugate gradient method is an algorithm for the numerical solution of particular systems of linear equations, namely those whose matrix is positive-semidefinite. The conjugate gradient method is often implemented as an it ...

, 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 In computer architecture, clock gating is a popular power management technique used in many synchronous circuits for reducing dynamic power dissipation (a significant source of power dissipation in digital designs), by removing the clock signal ...

, a way to lower clock tree power in an integrated circuit

Other uses in science and technology

Centigram To help compare different ''orders of magnitude'', the following lists describe various ''mass'' levels between 10−67 kg and 1052 kg. The least massive thing listed here is a graviton, and the most massive thing is the observable universe ...

(cg), a unit of mass in the SI system *

Center of gravity In physics, the center of mass of a distribution of mass in space (sometimes referred to as the barycenter or balance point) is the unique point at any given time where the weighted relative position of the distributed mass sums to zero. For ...

, a point in a body that may be used to simplify description of gravitational interactions *

Cloud-to-ground lightning Lightning is a natural phenomenon consisting of electrostatic discharges occurring through the atmosphere between two electrically charged regions. One or both regions are within the atmosphere, with the second region sometimes occurring on ...

, a type of lightning *

Carbon group The carbon group is a group (periodic table), periodic table group consisting of carbon (C), silicon (Si), germanium (Ge), tin (Sn), lead (Pb), and flerovium (Fl). It lies within the p-block. In modern International Union of Pure and Applied Ch ...

, also called group 14 *

Chorionic gonadotropin Human chorionic gonadotropin (hCG) is a hormone for the maternal recognition of pregnancy produced by trophoblast cells that are surrounding a growing embryo (syncytiotrophoblast initially), which eventually forms the placenta after implantat ...

, a hormone produced by the placenta during pregnancy *A US Navy hull classification symbol: Guided-missile cruiser (CG) *

Phosgene Phosgene is an organic chemical compound with the formula . It is a toxic, colorless gas; in low concentrations, its musty odor resembles that of freshly cut hay or grass. It can be thought of chemically as the double acyl chloride analog of ...

(military designation CG), a chemical weapon used during World War I

Places

Chhattisgarh Chhattisgarh (; ) is a landlocked States and union territories of India, state in Central India. It is the List of states and union territories of India by area, ninth largest state by area, and with a population of roughly 30 million, the List ...

, a state of India * Crna Gora, Montenegro *

Democratic Republic of the Congo The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), also known as the DR Congo, Congo-Kinshasa, or simply the Congo (the last ambiguously also referring to the neighbouring Republic of the Congo), is a country in Central Africa. By land area, it is t ...

(FIPS Pub 10-4 and obsolete NATO digram) *

Republic of the Congo The Republic of the Congo, also known as Congo-Brazzaville, the Congo Republic or simply the Congo (the last ambiguously also referring to the neighbouring Democratic Republic of the Congo), is a country located on the western coast of Central ...

(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 Cypress Gardens was a botanical garden and theme park near Winter Haven, Florida that operated from 1936 to 2009. As of 2011, the botanical garden portion had been preserved inside the newly formed Legoland Florida. History Billed as Florida' ...

, 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 Commandant-general is a military rank in several countries and is generally equivalent to that of major-general. Argentina Commandant general is the highest rank in the Argentine National Gendarmerie, and is held by the national director of the ...

, a rank in several counties and is generally equivalent to that of Commandant *Commanding General, a

commanding officer The commanding officer (CO) or commander, or sometimes, if the incumbent is a general officer, commanding general (CG), is the officer in command of a military unit. The commanding officer has ultimate authority over the unit, and is usually give ...

in the military that holds a general officer rank

Other uses

Complete game In baseball, a complete game (CG) is the act of a pitcher pitching an entire game without the benefit of a relief pitcher. A pitcher who meets this criterion will be credited with a complete game regardless of the number of innings played—pitche ...

, in baseball, the act of a pitcher pitching an entire game without the benefit of a relief pitcher *

Corporate Governance Corporate governance refers to the mechanisms, processes, practices, and relations by which corporations are controlled and operated by their boards of directors, managers, shareholders, and stakeholders. Definitions "Corporate governance" may ...

, a system of law and approaches by which corporations are directed and controlled