RG, Rg or rg may refer to:

People

Pete RG Peter Argyropoulos, better known by his stage name Pete RG, is an American singer-songwriter and producer based in Los Angeles. After being the lead singer and principal songwriter of the band Last December, he embarked upon a solo career. Sin ...

(fl. 1998–2015), an American singer-songwriter *

Razor Ramon RG (born June 9, 1974) is a Japanese comedian, professional wrestler and ''tarento'' ("talent") better known for his performing name of , which he adopted from his comedy partner Razor Ramon Hard Gay. He is better known for his work in Hustle an ...

or Makoto Izubuchi (born 1974), a Japanese professional wrestler *

RG Sharma Rohit Sharma (born 30 April 1987) is an Indian international cricketer and the captain of the national team in ODIs. He is also a former captain in Tests and T20Is. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest T20I opening batters of all ...

(born 1987), an Indian international cricketer *

RG Snyman Rudolph Gerhardus Snyman (born 29 January 1995) is a South African rugby union player who plays as a lock for Irish United Rugby Championship club Leinster and the South Africa national team. Snyman was part of the South Africa team that won t ...

(born 1995), South African rugby union player

Places

RG postcode area The RG postcode area, also known as the Reading postcode area, is a group of thirty postcode districts in England, within twelve post towns. These cover west and central Berkshire (including Reading, Bracknell, Crowthorne, Hungerford, Newbury, ...

, the postal address for the area of Reading and surrounding towns in England *

Province of Ragusa The province of Ragusa (; ) was a province in the autonomous region of Sicily, Italy, located in the southeast of the island. Following the abolition of the Sicilian provinces, it was replaced in 2015 by the Free municipal consortium of Ragusa ...

, Sicily, Italy, vehicle registration prefix

Science and technology

Computing and telecommunications

* Radio Guide, used to specify Coaxial cables (including a list of RG cable types) *

ReplayGain ReplayGain is a proposed technical standard published by David Robinson in 2001 to measure and normalize the perceived loudness of audio in computer audio formats such as MP3 and Ogg Vorbis. It allows media players to normalize loudness for in ...

, a proposed standard for normalizing the perceived loudness of digital audio playback *

ResearchGate ResearchGate is a European commercial social networking site for scientists and researchers to share papers, ask and answer questions, and find collaborators. According to a 2014 study by ''Nature'' and a 2016 article in ''Times Higher Education' ...

, a social network for scientists and researchers

Military

RG-6 grenade launcher The RG-6 ( GRAU designation 6G30) is a Russian 40 mm, six-shot, revolver A revolver is a repeating handgun with at least one barrel and a revolving cylinder containing multiple chambers (each holding a single cartridge) for firing. Beca ...

, a Russian weapon *

RG-42 The Soviet RG-42 (Ручная Граната образца 42 года > ''Ruchnaya Granata obraztsa 42 goda'', "Hand Grenade pattern of 92 year") was a fragmentation grenade designed by S. G. Korshunov. While it was introduced as a stopgap ...

, a Russian fragmentation grenade * armored vehicles designed by

Land Systems OMC Land Systems OMC is a South African company that produces a range of armoured vehicles which have been successfully exported and are in service with, amongst others, the U.S., Canadian and South African militaries. It is a division of Denel SOC L ...

, South Africa (including a list of RG-type vehicles)

Other uses in science and technology

* RG, or Rail Gourmet, a food brand and a division of

SSP Group SSP is an operator of food and beverage outlets in travel locations. The company, headquartered in London, England, is listed on the London Stock Exchange and is a constituent of the FTSE 250 Index. History The business was established as a divis ...

Radius of gyration The radius of gyration or gyradius of a body about the axis of rotation is defined as the radial distance to a point which would have a moment of inertia the same as the body's actual distribution of mass, if the total mass of the body were concent ...

, several related measures of the size of an object, a surface, or an ensemble of points * Reachability Graph, a

formal verification In the context of hardware and software systems, formal verification is the act of proving or disproving the correctness of a system with respect to a certain formal specification or property, using formal methods of mathematics. Formal ver ...

technique *

Renormalization group In theoretical physics, the renormalization group (RG) is a formal apparatus that allows systematic investigation of the changes of a physical system as viewed at different scales. In particle physics, it reflects the changes in the underlying p ...

, in physics, a mathematical apparatus allowing investigation of a system at different size scales *

RG color space An RG color model is a dichromatic color model represented by red and green primary colors. These can only reproduce a fraction of the colors possible with a trichromatic color space, such as for human color vision. The name of the model comes f ...

, a color space ** rg chromaticity, a two-dimensional color space in which there is no intensity information *

Rhamnogalacturonan Pectin ( ': "congealed" and "curdled") is a heteropolysaccharide, a structural polymer contained in the primary lamella, in the middle lamella, and in the cell walls of terrestrial plants. The principal chemical component of pectin is galacturo ...

s, a type of pectin *

Roentgenium Roentgenium () is a synthetic chemical element; it has symbol Rg and atomic number 111. It is extremely radioactive and can only be created in a laboratory. The most stable known isotope, roentgenium-282, has a half-life of 130 seconds, althoug ...

, symbol Rg, a chemical element

Sport

RG Heidelberg The RG Heidelberg (', literally "Heidelberg Rowing Club") is a List of rugby union clubs in Germany, German rugby union club from Heidelberg, currently playing in the Rugby-Bundesliga. Apart from rugby, the club also offers the sport of Rowing (sp ...

, a rugby union club from Heidelberg, Germany *

Rhythmic gymnastics Rhythmic gymnastics is a sport in which gymnasts perform individually or in groups on a floor with an apparatus: hoop (rhythmic gymnastics), hoop, ball (rhythmic gymnastics), ball, Clubs (rhythmic gymnastics), clubs, ribbon (rhythmic gymnastics), ...

* Right guard, a position in American football

Other uses

Direction centrale des renseignements généraux Direction may refer to: *Body relative direction, for instance left, right, forward, backwards, up, and down ** Anatomical terms of location for those used in anatomy ** List of ship directions *Cardinal direction *Bearing (navigation) Mathemat ...

or ''Renseignements Généraux'', a defunct French interior intelligence agency *

Ibanez RG The Ibanez RG is a series of electric guitars produced by Hoshino Gakki. The first model in the series, the RG550, was originally released in 1987 and advertised as part of the Roadstar series. That series was renamed "RG" in 1992 and all model ...

, a series of electric guitars produced by Hoshino Gakki * r > g, an economics equation fundamental to ''

Capital in the Twenty-First Century ''Capital in the Twenty-First Century'' () is a book written by French economist Thomas Piketty. It focuses on economic inequality, wealth and income inequality in Europe and the United States since the 18th century. It was first published in Fren ...

'' * Regional Gathering, an event hosted by local chapters of

American Mensa Mensa International is the largest and oldest high-IQ society in the world. It is a non-profit organization open to people who score at the 98th percentile or higher on a standardised, supervised IQ or other approved intelligence test. Mensa ...

RG Financial Corporation The R & G Financial Corporation (commonly known as RG Financial or R-G Financial) was a financial holding company located in San Juan, Puerto Rico. On April 30, 2010, its bank failed and its deposits and assets were seized by the Federal Deposit ...

, a financial holding company located in San Juan, Puerto Rico *

RG Line RG Line Oy Ab was a Finnish shipping company founded in 2001 that operated a ferry line between Vaasa, Finland and Umeå, Sweden until the end of 2012. Nowadays the Vaasa-Umeå line is operated by Wasa Line. The company was founded in 2001 by ...

, a Finnish shipping company * ''

RG Veda is a manga created by Clamp, consisting of ten volumes in all. It was first published in Japan in 1989 as Clamp's debut manga. The story features elements of Vedic mythology; the title itself is pronounced ''Rigveda'', the name of one of t ...

'', a Japanese manga first published in 1989 * ''

Race Gurram ''Race Gurram'' () is a 2014 Indian Telugu-language action comedy film co-written & directed by Surender Reddy and produced by Nallamalupu Srinivas under his banner Sri Lakshmi Narasimha Productions. The film stars Allu Arjun and Shruti ...

'', 2014 Indian film abbreviated as ''RG'' *

Röhm Gesellschaft Röhm Gesellschaft (RG) is a German brand of firearms and related shooting equipment. RG developed as a diversification of Röhm GmbH in the 1950s. After 1968, RG Industries was established as a US division in Miami and operated until 1986. In 20 ...

or RG, a German brand of firearms (including a list of RG-type models) * ''

Rossiyskaya Gazeta ' () is a Russian newspaper published by the Government of Russia. History ''Rossiyskaya Gazeta'' was founded in 1990 by the Supreme Soviet of the RSFSR, Supreme Soviet of the Russian SFSR during the ''glasnost'' reforms in Soviet Union, shortl ...

'', a Russian newspaper *

Varig VARIG (''Viação Aérea Rio-Grandense'', 'Rio Grandean Airways') was the first airline founded in Brazil, in 1927. From 1965 until 1990, it was Brazil's leading airline and virtually its only international one. In 2005, Varig went into judici ...

(1927-2006), Brazilian airline (IATA code RG) * A RG (Roof Garden) level in a building, also called Lower Penthouse (LPH) or a level where there is a rooftop garden in some buildings