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    Arg
    abbreviation
  • Arg.
    Arg.
    abbreviation
    Argentina.
  • ARG
    ARG
    abbreviation
    alternate reality game: a game, unannounced as such, that interweaves material on online platforms, such as images, fictional narrative, or clues hidden in the back end of a webpage, with events or places in the real world in order to create puzzles that can be solved individually or collaboratively by anyone aware of the game.

Arg

1 American  

abbreviation

Biochemistry.
  1. arginine.


Arg. 2 American  

abbreviation

  1. Argentina.


ARG 3 American  

abbreviation

  • ARGs
    plural
  1. Digital Technology. alternate reality game: a game, unannounced as such, that interweaves material on online platforms, such as images, fictional narrative, or clues hidden in the back end of a webpage, with events or places in the real world in order to create puzzles that can be solved individually or collaboratively by anyone aware of the game.

  2. Digital Technology. augmented reality game: a digital game incorporating elements from the real world via a smartphone or smart glasses. For example, a smartphone's camera can be used to view game action against a real-world background, photograph real-world items to earn points in the game, or find game elements hidden in QR codes, while its GPS can be used to find real-world places where game points can be earned.


Arg. British  

abbreviation

  1. Argentina

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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The 73-year-old also said that his immediate surroundings in the Arg, Afghanistan's presidential palace, had become unsafe.

From BBC ● Aug. 14, 2022

These were all challenges that Karzai faced in 2001 when military and CIA officers escorted him into the Arg, the presidential palace in downtown Kabul designed by British architects in the 19th century.

From Washington Post ● Sep. 2, 2021

But the Yeny Arg was registered in Guatemala, so federal officials contacted their Guatemalan counterparts to gain permission, under a bilateral agreement, to board and conduct a search.

From New York Times ● Nov. 20, 2017

The epicenter of the blast was a busy section of Kabul near the Arg, the 19th century fortress that houses the President’s home and residence, and close to the German embassy.

From Time ● May 31, 2017

But the way she was looking at Hassan, he might as well have been sitting on the throne at the Arg.

From "The Kite Runner" by Khaled Hosseini

He bore for arms: Arg., on a chevron engrailed gules, three bezants.

From Notes and Queries, Number 238, May 20, 1854 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc by Various

Arg. against lending books out of the Library; see post, sub anno 1659.

From Annals of the Bodleian Library, Oxford, A.D. 1598-A.D. 1867 With a Preliminary Notice of the earlier Library founded in the Fourteenth Century by William Dunn Macray

Arg. in l. si major. c. commun. divid. et de cons. di.

From Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 3 by Peter Anthony Motteux

In the Parlour of the Parsonage House Arg. a crosse engrayled G. betw.

From Records of Woodhall Spa and Neighbourhood Historical, Anecdotal, Physiographical, and Archaeological, with Other Matter by James Conway Walter

Welles Empaled Quarterly Arg. a chevron betw: 3 bulls passant sa.

From A History of Horncastle from the earliest period to the present time by James Conway Walter

Equipped with the original blueprints, ARG embarked on a full-scale rehabilitation.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 9, 2025

For example, Brazil is known as BRA, Argentina is ARG, England is ENG—you get the idea.

From Slate ● Jun. 20, 2018

In southeast Missouri, a smelter purchased in 2016 by Switzerland-based ARG International AG remains idle, pending the outcome of negotiations for an electric supply contract between ARG and utility company Ameren Missouri.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 17, 2018

Mr. Christie has surged in the polls in recent weeks, including scoring a third-place finish in a recent ARG poll of GOP primary voters in New Hampshire.

From Washington Times ● Jan. 4, 2016

His face is like a squeezed orange, or— ARG.

From Cynthia's Revels by Ben Jonson

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