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  • pg
    pg
    abbreviation
    picogram; picograms.
  • Pg
    Pg
    abbreviation
    Portugal.
  • PG
    PG
    abbreviation
    parental guidance: a rating assigned to a movie by the MPA indicating that children of all ages may attend but that some material may be deemed unsuitable and that parental guidance is advised.
  • pg.
    pg.
    abbreviation
    page.
  • P.G.
    P.G.
    abbreviation
    Past Grand.
  • Pg.
    Pg.
    abbreviation
    Portugal

pg

1 American  

abbreviation

  1. picogram; picograms.


Pg 2 American  
Or Pg.

abbreviation

  1. Portugal.

  2. Portuguese.


PG 3 American  

abbreviation

  1. Trademark. parental guidance: a rating assigned to a movie by the MPA indicating that children of all ages may attend but that some material may be deemed unsuitable and that parental guidance is advised.


PG 4 American  
Or P.G. or p.g.

abbreviation

Informal.
  1. pregnant.


pg. 5 American  

abbreviation

  1. page.


P.G. 6 American  

abbreviation

  1. Past Grand.

  2. paying guest.

  3. Postgraduate.

  4. Informal. pregnant. Also p.g.


PG 1 British  

abbreviation

  1. paying guest

  2. postgraduate

"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

Pg. 2 British  

abbreviation

  1. Portugal

  2. Portuguese

"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

PG 3 British  

symbol

  1. a film certified for viewing by anyone, but which contains scenes that may be unsuitable for children, for whom parental guidance is necessary

"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

pg. 4 British  

abbreviation

  1. page

"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

pg 5 British  

abbreviation

  1. Papua New Guinea

"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

Etymology

Origin of PG

An American designation established in 1972

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A little notebook with 1 pg per acct name - login -- password.

From New York Times ● Aug. 8, 2014

I'll be as discreet as Piscator could wish, In a style will enchant the Canadian fish, And utterly ravish the Yankee. pg 231 But now, as to bait?

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 146, March 4th 1914 by Various

All possibly dialectic/phonetic phrases have been retained, including the following; pg.

From "And they thought we wouldn't fight" by Floyd Gibbons

When this is so it can be shown that the linear system of curves is contained in an algebraic system whose dimension is greater by pg − pa than the dimension of the linear system.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 3 "Frost" to "Fyzabad" by Various

The difference pg − pa, which is never negative, is a most important characteristic of a surface.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 3 "Frost" to "Fyzabad" by Various

A single dose brought levels of Pg and Fn down to almost zero.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 4, 2026

"And Pg and Fn infections worsen survival rates of untreated recurrent or metastatic oral cancer, even after surgery and risk-adjusted adjuvant, or supplemental, therapies."

From Science Daily ● Aug. 4, 2026

Because both Cg and Pg are known, this relation can be rearragned and used to solve for k.

From Textbooks ● Feb. 14, 2019

The total pressure, or absolute pressure, is thus the sum of gauge pressure and atmospheric pressure: Pabs = Pg + Patm where Pabs is absolute pressure, Pg is gauge pressure, and Patm is atmospheric pressure.

From Textbooks ● Aug. 12, 2015

Pg 63 As a reply I quoted the words.

From Piano Playing: With Piano Questions Answered by Josef Hofmann

PG 25 is based in John Wood Street, where the shops were donated to the community years ago by the owners of Lithgows shipbuilders.

From BBC ● Aug. 24, 2026

It is his first competitive goal since netting for Suzuka PG, now Atletico Suzuka, against FC Osaka in November 2022.

From BBC ● Jul. 26, 2026

For those operating on the PG side of its border, the odds of making a living as an influencer get slimmer by the day.

From Salon ● May 4, 2026

Jimenez didn’t see the connection between her R-rated comedy about a moody Mexican American teen and a PG animated feature set in the world of K-pop music, but the duo still pitched.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 4, 2026

“Oh, my God. I can’t imagine watching anything with my parents that mentions drugs or even has PG kissing. We mostly watch old Indian movies together. Ancient ones.”

From "Love, Hate & Other Filters" by Samira Ahmed

As a staffer named Amelia wrote: “Mr. Gesner is my new favorite architect! Apparently an awesome guy too — he’s 89 and surfs everyday: check out the boat houses on pg. 90!”

From New York Times ● Dec. 19, 2014

Of these pg. 12two hypotheses one is, intelligent design manifested in creation; and the other is, natural selection manifested during the countless ages of the past.

From The Scientific Evidences of Organic Evolution by George John Romanes

Ormonde's was changed to Ormond's on pg. xxii.

From The Wits and Beaux of Society Volume 1 by Grace Wharton

Of course, it took pg. 21time to perceive this distinction between fundamental and superficial resemblances.

From The Scientific Evidences of Organic Evolution by George John Romanes

The theory of pg. 27evolution infers, from the whole structure of these animals, that their progenitors must have been terrestrial quadrupeds of some kind, which became aquatic in their habits.

From The Scientific Evidences of Organic Evolution by George John Romanes

The late British author was a sophisticate with an eye for irony, influenced in large part by Monty Python’s random absurdities, P.G.

From Slate ● Nov. 7, 2023

Coming to a South King County park near you this summer will be Burien Actors Theatre’s production of this 1927 comedy from P.G.

From Seattle Times ● May 25, 2023

These people are merely rich like Fred and Ginger in soundstage Venice, or Bertie Wooster in P.G.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 28, 2022

My wife, our youngest son and I drove to a nephew’s wedding in Rochester, N.Y., listening en route to Jonathan Cecil perform P.G.

From Washington Post ● Sep. 7, 2022

In the British Museum is preserved a sheet of similar comments made by Lamb upon a manuscript of P.G.

From The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 6 Letters 1821-1842 by Mary Lamb

An outhouse near one of Dr. Roebuck's pits was selected as away Pg. 77from prying eyes.

From James Watt by Andrew Carnegie

The partners continued working in the right direction and Pg. 111in the right way to create these needful additions and were finally successful, but they found that success brought another source of annoyance.

From James Watt by Andrew Carnegie

There will be friction, of course, between capital and labor, but it will be healthy friction, Pg. 34needed by, and good for, both.

From James Watt by Andrew Carnegie

Thus under the genius Steam, tamed and Pg. 25harnessed by Watt, the world shrinks into a neighborhood, giving some countenance to the dreamers who may perchance be proclaiming a coming reality.

From James Watt by Andrew Carnegie

May the future of Pg. 38Glasgow University copy fair her glorious past!

From James Watt by Andrew Carnegie

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