RG

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

Arts and entertainment

• Ibanez RG, a series of electric guitars produced by Hoshino Gakki
• "RG Plus", a Paraguayan pay television channel
• RapGenius, a website that explains hip-hop/rap song lyrics

People

• Robert Griffin III also known as RG3, American football player
• Rahul Gandhi, Vice President of the Indian National Congress
• Richard Garriot, Creator of the Ultima series, also known as Lord British

Places

• RG postcode area, the postal address for the area of Reading and surrounding towns in England
• Province of Ragusa, Sicily, Italy: vehicle registration prefix
• Rustavi, a city in the country of Georgia

Science and technology

Computing and telecommunications

• Radio Guide, (or Radio Grade), used to specify coaxial cable; see Coaxial cable standards
• ReplayGain, a proposed standard for normalizing the perceived loudness of digital audio playback
• Replication Group, a component of DFS Replication
• ResearchGate, a social network for scientists and researchers
• Residential gateway, a hardware device connecting a home network with a wide area network (WAN) or the Internet

Weapons

• RG-6 grenade launcher, a Russian weapon
• Railgun, a form of gun that converts electrical energy into projectile kinetic energy

Other uses in science and technology

• RG color space, a color space
• Radius of gyration, several related measures of the size of an object, a surface, or an ensemble of points
• Reachability Graph, a formal verification technique
• Renormalization group, in physics, a mathematical apparatus allowing investigation of a system at different size scales
• Rhamnogalacturonans, a type of pectin
• Roentgenium, a chemical element with symbol Rg

Sport

• Right guard, a position in American football
• Rhythmic gymnastics
• Roland Garros, tennis stadium where the French Open is held

Other uses

• "Regards", in shorthand
• Regional Gathering, an event hosted by local chapters of American Mensa
• Russell Group, an association of 24 British universities
• Renseignements Généraux, a defunct French interior intelligence agency

See also

• Rio Grande (disambiguation)