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  Arg

  abbreviation

  arginine.
• 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.

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Arg. ² American  

abbreviation

1. Argentina.

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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.

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Arg. British  

abbreviation

1. Argentina

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Argent, known as Arg, rose to fame on the ITV reality show, becoming one of its most prominent characters between 2010 and 2018.

From BBC ● May 14, 2025

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

For several hours, the Coast Guard officers searched the Yeny Arg.

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

No. 1, Arg., a Cross gu., the armorial ensign of St. George, the special Patron Saint of England, may be blazoned as “A Cross of St. George.”

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

Examples:—Arg., three fountains, for Welles: Arg., a Chevron sable between three fountains, borne by a family named Sykes, their name being an ancient term signifying a well or fountain.

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

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. a cheveron G. between three ermines; 3.

From Notes and Queries, Vol. IV, Number 98, September 13, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. by Various

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

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

The game began in February 2007 at the tail end of a “golden age” for commercial ARGs, which included an Audi campaign, ARG companions to major TV shows, and an “interactive clothing” company.

From The Verge ● Jul. 15, 2022

A historical preservation consultant from ARG photographed areas and took samples away in baggies, to be analyzed in a lab.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 19, 2021

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

My ARG team were my closest friends, but there were plenty of people I knew and trusted enough to hand an Xnet disc to.

From Little Brother by Doctorow, Cory