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RG, Rg or rg may stand for the following things:

Organizations

  • Royal Gibraltar Regiment, a regiment of the British military, the abbreviation is used in conjunction with rank, e.g. Captain, R.G.
  • Direction centrale des renseignements généraux (aka Renseignements Généraux), the intelligence service of the French Police.
  • Iraqi Republican Guard, Iraqi military force under Saddam Hussein.
  • R & G Financial Corporation (aka RG Financial or R-G Financial), a financial holding company located in San Juan, Puerto Rico.
  • Rio Group, an international organization of Latin American states
  • Röhm (RG), a German manufacturer of firearms.
  • Varig (formerly Viação Aérea RIo Grandense, nowadays VRG Linhas Aéreas S/A), IATA code for the Brazilian flag carrier airline owned by Gol Transportes Aéreos.

Places

Science and technology

  • Ibanez RG, a series of electric guitars produced by Hoshino Gakki
  • Radio Guide, (or Radio Grade), an obsolete US military standard still used to specify types of coaxial cable, see Coaxial cable standards
  • Radius of gyration, several related measures of the size of an object, a surface, or an ensemble of points
  • Railgun, a form of gun that converts electrical energy (rather than the more conventional chemical energy from an explosive propellant) into projectile kinetic energy
  • Reachability Graph, a formal verification technique
  • Renormalization group, in theoretical physics, refers to a mathematical apparatus that allows one to investigate the changes of a physical system as one views it at different distance scales
  • Replay Gain, a proposed standard published in 2001 to normalize the perceived loudness of computer audio formats such as MP3 and Ogg Vorbis
  • Residential gateway, a hardware device connecting a home network with a wide area network (WAN) or the Internet
  • RG, a color space
  • Rhamnogalacturonans, a type of pectin
  • Roentgenium (atomic number 111), chemical symbol for the element in the periodic table

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