PEG or peg may refer to:

Devices

Clothes peg A clothespin (US English) or clothes peg (UK English), also spelled "clothes pin" is a fastener used to hang up clothes for drying, usually on a clothes line. Clothespins come in many different designs. Design During the 1700s laundry was ...

, a fastener used to hang up clothes for drying *

Tent peg A tent peg (or tent stake) is a spike, usually with a hook or hole on the top end, typically made from wood, metal, plastic, or composite material, pushed or driven into the ground for holding a tent to the ground, either directly by attaching to ...

, a spike driven into the ground for holding a tent to the ground * Tuning peg, used to hold a string in the pegbox of a stringed instrument *

Piton A piton (; also called ''pin'' or ''peg'') in big wall climbing and in aid climbing is a metal spike (usually steel) that is driven into a crack or seam in the climbing surface using a Rock climbing hammer, climbing hammer, and which acts as an ...

, a metal spike that is driven into rock to aid climbing * PEG tube, a medical device, that is, a percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy tube * Foot peg, a place to put one's foot on a vehicle such as a

motorcycle A motorcycle (motorbike, bike; uni (if one-wheeled); trike (if three-wheeled); quad (if four-wheeled)) is a lightweight private 1-to-2 passenger personal motor vehicle Steering, steered by a Motorcycle handlebar, handlebar from a saddle-style ...

Science and computing

Pegasus (constellation) Pegasus is a constellation in the northern sky, named after the winged horse Pegasus in Greek mythology. It was one of the 48 constellations listed by the 2nd-century astronomer Ptolemy, and is one of the IAU designated constellations, 88 constel ...

, abbreviated Peg, a constellation in the northern sky *

Percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy Percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy (PEG) is an endoscopic medical procedure in which a tube (PEG tube) is passed into a patient's stomach through the abdominal wall, most commonly to provide a means of feeding when oral intake is not adequate ...

, a medical procedure *

Polyethylene glycol Polyethylene glycol (PEG; ) is a polyether compound derived from petroleum with many applications, from industrial manufacturing to medicine. PEG is also known as polyethylene oxide (PEO) or polyoxyethylene (POE), depending on its molecular wei ...

, a chemical polymer *

Parsing expression grammar In computer science, a parsing expression grammar (PEG) is a type of analytic formal grammar, i.e. it describes a formal language in terms of a set of rules for recognizing strings in the language. The formalism was introduced by Bryan Ford in 20 ...

, a type of formal grammar used in mathematics and computer science *

PCI Express PCI Express (Peripheral Component Interconnect Express), officially abbreviated as PCIe, is a high-speed standard used to connect hardware components inside computers. It is designed to replace older expansion bus standards such as Peripher ...

Graphics adapter, an abbreviation commonly used in BIOS settings *

Pneumoencephalography Pneumoencephalography (sometimes abbreviated PEG; also referred to as an "air study") was a common medical procedure in which most of the cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) was drained from around the brain by means of a lumbar puncture and replaced with ...

, an obsolete medical procedure for brain imaging

Recreation

* Peg, a rule in the game of backyard cricket * Peg, a position or post in a driven hunt where a gun will stand * Peg (fishing), an area set aside for an angler *

Peg solitaire Peg Solitaire, Solo Noble, Solo Goli, Marble Solitaire or simply Solitaire is a board game for one player involving movement of pegs on a board with holes. Some sets use marbles in a board with indentations. The game is known as solitaire in Bri ...

, a board game for one player * Pegs, pieces from the board game '' The Game of Life'' representing people * Pinnacle Entertainment Group, a game company

People and fictional characters

* Peg (nickname)

Codes

* Pegswood railway station, United Kingdom, National Rail station code PEG * Perugia San Francesco d'Assisi – Umbria International Airport, Italy, IATA airport code PEG * Pengo language, spoken in the Nabarangpur district of Odisha, India, ISO 639-3 code peg

Other uses

* Peg (unit), an Indian measure used in preparing alcohol, from 1 to 2 fluid ounces * PEG or PEGA channels,

public, educational, and government access Public-access television (sometimes called community-access television) is traditionally a form of non-commercial mass media where the general public can create content television programming which is narrowcast through cable television special ...

cable TV channels in the United States * Peg, or fixed exchange-rate system, a system to value currencies *

PEG ratio The 'PEG ratio' ( price/earnings to growth ratio) is a valuation metric for determining the relative trade-off between the price of a stock, the earnings generated per share (EPS), and the company's expected growth. In general, the P/E ratio is ...

, price/earnings to growth ratio, a stock price analysis tool * "Peg" (song), a 1977 song by Steely Dan * Producer Entertainment Group, a talent agency * Program for the Exceptionally Gifted, a program at Mary Baldwin College *

Winnipeg Winnipeg () is the capital and largest city of the Provinces and territories of Canada, Canadian province of Manitoba. It is centred on the confluence of the Red River of the North, Red and Assiniboine River, Assiniboine rivers. , Winnipeg h ...