RG
Wikimedia disambiguation page
RG, Rg or rg may refer to:
People
Pete RG (fl. 1998–2015), an American singer-songwriter
Razor Ramon RG or Makoto Izubuchi (born 1974), a Japanese professional wrestler
RG Sharma (born 1987), an Indian international cricketer
RG Snyman (born 1995), South African rugby union player
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
Science and technology
Computing and telecommunications
Radio Guide, used to specify Coaxial cables (including a list of RG cable types)
ReplayGain, 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, a Russian fragmentation grenade
armored vehicles designed by Land Systems OMC, 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
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
Research group, at universities or research centers, research groups are commonly abbreviated this way.
The public source identifies “RG” as wikimedia disambiguation page. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Wikimedia, disambiguation and page.
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This entry incorporates text from “RG” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.