hg
hectogram; hectograms.
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Symbol, Chemistry.
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H.G.
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High German
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His ( or Her) Grace
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(formerly, in Britain) Home Guard
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Etymology
Origin of Hg
< New Latin hydrargyrum, for Latin hydrargyrus (by analogy with aurum, argentum, etc.) < Greek hydrárgyros literally, liquid silver ( hydr- hydr- 1 + árgyros silver)
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In the region of the posterior appendages, pa, the section passes through the hindgut, hg, and allantois, al.
From Development of the Digestive Canal of the American Alligator by C. M. Reese
Lay off kf, hg, horizontal and equal to l.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria" by Various
Also the name of the person from whom the original MS. was purchased—“Tad hg O’Cuinn bachelor in physic.”
From The Old English Herbals by Eleanour Sinclair Rohde
At the beginning of the year, buyout shop Hg agreed to pay over $6 billion for the KKR-backed financial-software maker OneStream, notching KKR another big return on its initial investment.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 21, 2026
Private-equity firm Hg is acquiring OneStream for about $6.4 billion in cash.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 6, 2026
Hg Capital, a British private-equity company, is in advanced talks to acquire OneStream, Bloomberg reported Tuesday, citing people familiar with the matter.
From Barron's ● Jan. 6, 2026
As one of the most toxic elements on Earth, Hg is a metal that is emitted from volcanoes in gaseous form, and thus has the capacity to spread worldwide.
From Science Daily ● Apr. 30, 2024
“Doug, of Ag, Au, and Hg, which one is the symbol for silver?”
From "Okay for Now" by Gary D. Schmidt
Quantum Capital Group, a private-equity firm in Houston, raised such a continuation fund about two years ago to hold on to its portfolio company HG Energy.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 14, 2026
Sarah also sought advice from a medical consultant who told her about HG and enabled access to medication so she felt able to try a third pregnancy.
From BBC ● Dec. 10, 2025
Ella Marcham from Yeadon in Leeds experienced the first symptoms of HG before she even knew she was pregnant.
From BBC ● Dec. 10, 2025
Sarah said she was "still devastated" about the decision she felt that she had to make when she chose to end her pregnancy due to the severity of HG.
From BBC ● Dec. 10, 2025
And this happens by taking the Line C prt B any where between the Ends of the Prism HG and EI.
From Opticks or, a Treatise of the Reflections, Refractions, Inflections, and Colours of Light by Sir Isaac Newton
They ran a small but well-regarded school; one of their teachers was a young H.G.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 9, 2026
Science fiction is particularly rich with classic works like Olaf Stapledon’s “Last and First Men” and H.G.
From Salon ● May 17, 2025
I’d heard that the restaurant’s name could be traced to a figure in a Charles Dickens or H.G.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 27, 2024
For example, a sentence about the relationship between author H.G.
From BBC ● Oct. 26, 2023
It is difficult to choose terms that even approach scientific accuracy in these generalizations, for, as Mr. H.G.
From The Fijians A Study of the Decay of Custom by Basil Thomson
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