PEG or peg may refer to:

Devices

* Clothes peg, a fastener used to hang up clothes for drying * Tent peg, a spike driven into the ground for holding a tent to the ground *

Tuning peg A variety of methods are used to tune different stringed instruments. Most change the pitch produced when the string is played by adjusting the tension of the strings. A tuning peg in a pegbox is perhaps the most common system. A peg has ...

, used to hold a string in the pegbox of a stringed instrument *

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

, 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, or trike (if three-wheeled)) is a two or three-wheeled motor vehicle steered by a handlebar. Motorcycle design varies greatly to suit a range of different purposes: long-distance travel, commuting, cruisin ...

Science and computing

Peg (unit) A peg is a unit of volume, typically used to measure amounts of liquor Liquor (or a spirit) is an alcoholic drink produced by distillation of grains, fruits, vegetables, or sugar, that have already gone through alcoholic fermentation. ...

, a measure used in preparing alcohol, from 1 to 2 fluid ounces *

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 88 constellations recognised today. W ...

, a constellation named after Pegasus * Percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy, 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 w ...

, a chemical polymer ** Macrogol, the name for polyethylene glycol in pharmaceutical contexts *

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 ...

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

PCI Express PCI Express (Peripheral Component Interconnect Express), officially abbreviated as PCIe or PCI-e, is a high-speed serial computer expansion bus standard, designed to replace the older PCI, PCI-X and AGP bus standards. It is the common m ...

Graphics adapter, an abbreviation commonly used in BIOS settings

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 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 Britain and as peg solitaire in ...

, 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

* Peg, an abbreviation of

Peggy (given name) Peggy is a female first name (often curtailed to "Peg") derived from Meggy, a diminutive version of the name Margaret. People Writers * Peggy Dunstan (1920–2010), New Zealand poet and writer * Peggy Frew (born 1976), Australian author * Pegg ...

Transportation

* Pegswood railway station, United Kingdom (by National Rail code) * Perugia San Francesco d'Assisi – Umbria International Airport, Italy (by IATA airport code)

Other uses

* PEG or PEGA channels,

public, educational, and government access Public-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 specialty channels. Public-access television was cre ...

cable TV channels in the United States * Peg, or fixed exchange-rate system, a system to value currencies * PEG ratio, price/earnings to growth ratio, a stock price analysis tool * ''Poetae epici Graeci'', a collection of Greek epic and Orphic fragments, edited by Alberto Bernabé * "Peg" (song), a song by Steely Dan * Mnemonic peg system, a memory aid * 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 province of Manitoba in Canada. It is centred on the confluence of the Red and Assiniboine rivers, near the longitudinal centre of North America. , Winnipeg had a city population of 749 ...