CG, Cg or cg may refer to:

Arts and entertainment

Chaotic Good In the ''Dungeons & Dragons'' (''D&D'') fantasy role-playing game, alignment is a categorization of the ethical and moral perspective of player characters, non-player characters, and creatures. Most versions of the game feature a system in w ...

, an alignment in the role-playing game ''Dungeons & Dragons'' *

Classical guitar The classical guitar (also known as the nylon-string guitar or Spanish guitar) is a member of the guitar family used in classical music and other styles. An acoustic wooden string instrument with strings made of gut or nylon, it is a precursor o ...

, a type of guitar

Businesses and organizations

Businesses

Central of Georgia Railway The Central of Georgia Railway started as the Central Rail Road and Canal Company in 1833. As a way to better attract investment capital, the railroad changed its name to Central Rail Road and Banking Company of Georgia. This railroad was cons ...

, between Macon and Savannah, Georgia in the US *

Chappe et Gessalin Chappe et Gessalin is the short-form of the name of French coachbuilder "Carrosserie Chappe Frères et Gessalin". The company built automobile bodies and did contract assembly for other automobile manufacturers. It was also the parent of Automobile ...

, a French automobile maker * Chaudhary Group, a multinational company based in Nepal *

Cigna Cigna is an American multinational managed healthcare and insurance company based in Bloomfield, Connecticut. Its insurance subsidiaries are major providers of medical, dental, disability, life and accident insurance and related products and se ...

, formed in Hartford in 1865 as the Connecticut General Life Insurance Company *

Colorado General UCHealth University of Colorado Hospital or University Hospital (formerly named Colorado General Hospital) is part of UCHealth (University of Colorado Health) and is a Level I trauma center and the principal teaching hospital for the University ...

Hospital, now known as University of Colorado Hospital * PNG Air, an airline from Papua New Guinea (IATA code CG) * The Carlyle Group, a private equity firm (stock symbol CG)

Military units

Ceremonial Guard The Ceremonial Guard (CG; french: Garde de cérémonie) is an ''ad hoc'' military unit in the Canadian Armed Forces that performs the Changing the Guard ceremony on Parliament Hill and posts sentries at Rideau Hall, with the National War Memo ...

, an ''ad hoc'' military unit in the Canadian Forces * Coast guard, a national organization responsible for various services at sea

Political parties

* Galician Coalition, a Galician political party with a Galician nationalist and centrist ideology * Galician Convergence, a Galician political party with a moderate nationalist ideology, which describes itself as centrist, socially progressive and economically liberal

Other organizations

Common Ground (NYC) Breaking Ground, formerly Common Ground, is a nonprofit social services organization in New York City whose goal is to create high-quality permanent and transitional housing for the homeless. Its philosophy holds that supportive housing costs s ...

, a non-profit that builds and runs supportive housing in New York City and elsewhere *

Community Games Aldi Community Games is an Irish independent voluntary organisation and National Governing Body providing opportunities for children and young people to grow and develop in a positive and healthy way while experiencing a wide range of sporting and ...

, an Irish voluntary organisation for young people to experience sporting and cultural activities

Mathematics, science, and technology

Mathematics and computing

Cg (programming language) Cg (short for C for Graphics) and High-Level Shader Language (HLSL) are two names given to a high-level shading language developed by Nvidia and Microsoft for computer programming, programming shaders. Cg/HLSL is based on the C (programming lan ...

, developed by NVIDIA * Categorial grammar, a term used for a family of formalisms in natural language syntax *

Character generator A character generator, often abbreviated as CG, is a device or software that produces static or animated text (such as news crawls and credits rolls) for keying into a video stream. Modern character generators are computer-based, and they can g ...

, a device or software that produces static or animated text (such as crawls and rolls) for keying into a video stream for broadcast television *

Computational geometry Computational geometry is a branch of computer science devoted to the study of algorithms which can be stated in terms of geometry. Some purely geometrical problems arise out of the study of computational geometric algorithms, and such problems ar ...

, the study of algorithms to solve problems stated in terms of geometry * Computer graphics, graphics created using computers and, more generally, the representation and manipulation of image data by a computer with help from specialized software and hardware **

Computer-generated imagery Computer-generated imagery (CGI) is the use of computer graphics to create or contribute to images in art, printed media, video games, simulators, and visual effects in films, television programs, shorts, commercials, and videos. The images may ...

, application of computer graphics to create or contribute to images in art * Conceptual graph, a formalism for knowledge representation *

Conjugate gradient method In mathematics, the conjugate gradient method is an algorithm for the numerical solution of particular systems of linear equations, namely those whose matrix is positive-definite. The conjugate gradient method is often implemented as an iterativ ...

, an algorithm for the numerical solution of particular systems of linear equations * Constraint Grammar, a methodological paradigm for natural language processing * Coherency Granule, usually the size of a CPU cache line * Clock gating, a way to lower clock tree power in an integrated circuit

Other uses in science and technology

Centigram To help compare different orders of magnitude, the following lists describe various mass levels between 10−59 kg and 1052 kg. The least massive thing listed here is a graviton, and the most massive thing is the observable universe. ...

(cg), a unit of mass in the SI system * Center of gravity, a point in a body that may be used to simplify description of gravitational interactions *

Cloud-to-ground lightning Lightning is a naturally occurring electrostatic discharge during which two electric charge, electrically charged regions, both in the atmosphere or with one on the land, ground, temporarily neutralize themselves, causing the instantaneous ...

, a type of lightning * Carbon group, also called group 14 * Chorionic gonadotropin, a hormone produced by the placenta during pregnancy * Guided-missile cruiser (US Navy hull classification symbol CG) *

Phosgene Phosgene is the organic chemical compound with the formula COCl2. It is a toxic, colorless gas; in low concentrations, its musty odor resembles that of freshly cut hay or grass. Phosgene is a valued and important industrial building block, espe ...

(military designation CG), a chemical weapon used during World War I

Places

Chhattisgarh Chhattisgarh (, ) is a landlocked state in Central India. It is the ninth largest state by area, and with a population of roughly 30 million, the seventeenth most populous. It borders seven states – Uttar Pradesh to the north, Madhya Prade ...

, a state of India *

Crna Gora ) , image_map = Europe-Montenegro.svg , map_caption = , image_map2 = , capital = Podgorica , coordinates = , largest_city = capital , official_languages = Mo ...

, Montenegro * Democratic Republic of the Congo (FIPS Pub 10-4 and obsolete NATO digram) *

Republic of the Congo The Republic of the Congo (french: République du Congo, ln, Republíki ya Kongó), also known as Congo-Brazzaville, the Congo Republic or simply either Congo or the Congo, is a country located in the western coast of Central Africa to the w ...

(ISO country code), a state in Central Africa **

.cg .cg is the Internet country code top-level domain (ccTLD) for the Republic of the Congo The Republic of the Congo (french: République du Congo, ln, Republíki ya Kongó), also known as Congo-Brazzaville, the Congo Republic or simply eithe ...

, the Internet country code top-level domain (ccTLD) for the Republic of the Congo *

Cypress Gardens Cypress Gardens was a botanical garden and theme park near Winter Haven, Florida that operated from 1936 to 2009. As of 2011, the botanical garden portion had been preserved inside the newly formed Legoland Florida. History Billed as Florida' ...

, an American theme park near Winter Haven, Florida, that operated from 1936 to 2009

Ranks and titles

*Certified Genealogist, licensed by the

Board for Certification of Genealogists {{primarysources, date=May 2009 The Board for Certification of Genealogists is a certifying body for genealogists founded in 1964 by Fellows of the American Society of Genealogists, the genealogical field's academic honorary society. The Board lice ...

* Commandant-General, a rank in several counties and is generally equivalent to that of Commandant *Commanding General, a

commanding officer The commanding officer (CO) or sometimes, if the incumbent is a general officer, commanding general (CG), is the officer in command of a military unit. The commanding officer has ultimate authority over the unit, and is usually given wide latitu ...

in the military that holds a general officer rank

Other uses

Complete game In baseball, a complete game (CG) is the act of a pitcher pitching an entire game without the benefit of a relief pitcher. A pitcher who meets this criterion will be credited with a complete game regardless of the number of innings played—pitche ...

, in baseball, the act of a pitcher pitching an entire game without the benefit of a relief pitcher * Corporate Governance, a system of law and approaches by which corporations are directed and controlled