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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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Unesco has said that the building suffered damage resulting from a strike on nearby Arg Square, where the judicial complex is located.

From BBC Mar. 6, 2026

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

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 Macray, William Dunn

Arg., on a bend engrailed vert, between two bucks' heads cabossed sable, attired or, three besants; a canton erminois.

From Notes and Queries, Number 235, April 29, 1854 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. by Various

Examples:—Az., bezantée, for Wm. de la Zouche: Or, on a fesse gu. three plates, for Roger de Huntingfield: Arg., ten torteaux, four, three, two, one, for Alex.

From The Handbook to English Heraldry by Utting, R. B.

La Warre Arg. on a bend, G. 3 gryphons heads erased, or .

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

G. Hatcliffe Sa. a sword in pale arg   Arg. a fesse daunce betw.

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

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

From Los Angeles Times Dec. 9, 2025

ARG chief executive Matt Braid said it was an “impossible situation … it is obviously very disappointing to postpone the inaugural running of the Bathurst International.”

From Washington Times Oct. 6, 2020

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

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

From Cynthia's Revels by Jonson, Ben

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