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 and ...

or Makoto Izubuchi (born 1974), a Japanese professional wrestler * RG Sharma (born 1987), an Indian international cricketer *

RG Snyman Rudolph Gerhardus Snyman (born 29 January 1995) is a South African professional rugby union player who currently plays for the South Africa national team and Irish province Munster in the United Rugby Championship. His regular position is loc ...

(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 ( it, Provincia di Ragusa; Sicilian: ''Pruvincia 'i Rausa'') was a province in the autonomous region of Sicily in southern Italy, located in the south-east of the island. Following the abolition of the Sicilian provinces, ...

, 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 indi ...

, a proposed standard for normalizing the perceived loudness of digital audio playback * ResearchGate, a social network for scientists and researchers

Military

* RG-6 grenade launcher, 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. It was originally introduced during Wo ...

, 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 LT ...

, 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 a British multinational contract foodservice company, with headquarters in London, England. It operates more than 2,800 branded catering and retail units at over 180 airports and 300 railway stations across 35 countries as a concessionaire ...

Radius of gyration ''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 concentr ...

, 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 intended algorithms underlying a system with respect to a certain formal specification or property, using formal met ...

technique *

Renormalization group In theoretical physics, the term renormalization group (RG) refers to 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 ...

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

rg chromaticity The rg chromaticity space, two dimensions of the ''normalized RGB'', or rgb, space, is a chromaticity space, a two-dimensional color space in which there is no intensity information. In the RGB color space a pixel is identified by the intensity ...

, a two-dimensional color space in which there is no intensity information * Rhamnogalacturonans, a type of pectin *

Roentgenium Roentgenium is a chemical element with the symbol Rg and atomic number 111. It is an extremely radioactive synthetic element that can be created in a laboratory but is not found in nature. The most stable known isotope, roentgenium-282, has a h ...

, symbol Rg, a chemical element

Sport

RG Heidelberg The RG Heidelberg (''german: Rudergesellschaft Heidelberg'', literally "Heidelberg Rowing Club") is a German rugby union club from Heidelberg, currently playing in the Rugby-Bundesliga. Apart from rugby, the club also offers the sport of rowing. ...

, a rugby union club from Heidelberg, Germany * Rhythmic gymnastics * Right guard, a position in American football

Other uses

Direction centrale des renseignements généraux The ''Direction Centrale des Renseignements Généraux'' (Central Directorate of General Intelligence), often called ''Renseignements Généraux'' (RG), was the intelligence service of the French National Police, answerable to the ''Direction Gén ...

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

Ibanez RG The Ibanez RG is a series of electric guitars produced by Hoshino Gakki and one of the best-selling superstrat-style guitars ever made. The first model in the series, the RG550, was originally released in 1987 and advertised as part of the Roa ...

, 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'' (french: Le Capital au XXIe siècle) is a book written by French economist Thomas Piketty. It focuses on wealth and income inequality in Europe and the United States since the 18th century. It was initially ...

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

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

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 Depos ...

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

Varig VARIG (acronym for 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 ...

(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