PEG or peg may refer to:

Devices

* Clothes peg, 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 t ...

, 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 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 (fo ...

, 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, cruising ...

Science and computing

* Peg (unit), 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. Wit ...

, a constellation named after Pegasus *

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 (fo ...

, 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 we ...

, a chemical polymer **

Macrogol Macrogol, also known as polyethylene glycol (PEG), is used as a medication to treat constipation in children and adults. It is also used to empty the bowels before a colonoscopy. It is taken by mouth. Benefits usually occur within three days ...

, the name for polyethylene glycol in pharmaceutical contexts * Parsing expression grammar, 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 ''The Game of Life'', also known simply as ''Life'', is a board game originally created in 1860 by Milton Bradley as ''The Checkered Game of Life'', the first ever board game for his own company, the Milton Bradley Company. ''The Game of Life'' ...

'' representing people *

Pinnacle Entertainment Group Pinnacle Entertainment Group is a publisher of role-playing games and wargames. History When Shane Lacy Hensley decided to create a 19th-century miniatures game he contacted Charles Ryan's company Chameleon Eclectic about publishing it. The re ...

, 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 fixed exchange rate, often called a pegged exchange rate, is a type of exchange rate regime in which a currency's value is fixed or pegged by a monetary authority against the value of another currency, a basket of other currencies, or another ...

, 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 * ''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 The mnemonic peg system, invented by Henry Herdson is a memory aid that works by creating mental associations between two concrete objects in a one-to-one fashion that will later be applied to to-be-remembered information. Typically this involves ...

, 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, ...