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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

You don't absolutely need the |more or |pg, but if you don't include it, the list will keep scrolling, rather than pausing every 24 lines.

From Big Dummy's Guide to the Internet by Electronic Frontier Foundation

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

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

The following text was printed on two pairs of facing pages: pg.

From Erthe Upon Erthe by Various

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

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

From Textbooks Feb. 14, 2019

The gauge pressure is Pg = hρg and is found by measuring h .

From Textbooks Aug. 12, 2015

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

Models assuming that rising temperatures and CO2 concentrations will increase photosynthesis, which absorbs CO faster than respiration emits CO, suggest that the biosphere could absorb up to 10 Pg C year.

From Nature Feb. 12, 2014

Pg 67 But my wish was granted, and I reproduce the portrait in this article.

From Piano Playing: With Piano Questions Answered by Hofmann, Josef

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

Consumer-products company Procter & Gamble PG 2.46%increase; green up pointing triangle , which sells brands including Tide, Crest, Puffs and Pampers, reported sales growth of 3%, below what it considers a normal rate of 4%.

From The Wall Street Journal Apr. 27, 2026

“This would be PG, essentially. You could even say G-rated. There would be no blood in it. It’s doing clever fighting that makes you smile and laugh.”

From Los Angeles Times Apr. 15, 2026

He feels something changed in 2005, after which WWE became "increasingly scripted in a way it had not been" before, as it entered into a more controlled, family friendly PG era.

From BBC Dec. 12, 2025

I had heard stories about PG County from the same poets who opened my world.

From "Between the World and Me" by Ta-Nehisi Coates

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

The reason of this ignorance is no doubt partly due to the busy life which many pg. 2of our bread-winners are constrained to live; but it is also, I think, partly due to mere indolence.

From The Scientific Evidences of Organic Evolution by Romanes, George John

For the purpose of the plain text version of this book it has been corrected. pg. xvii - Table of Contents - Chapter XVIII, pg.

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

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 Romanes, George John

It is sometimes said that a striking pg. 44corroboration of a scientific theory is furnished when it enables us correctly to predict discoveries.

From The Scientific Evidences of Organic Evolution by Romanes, George John

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

“We loved the area and wanted to stay in P.G. County,” said Denise.

From Washington Post Feb. 9, 2022

What appeals to me most is the purely unmilitary prospect of being able to protect the men, to some extent, from the, I'm sure, largely preventible sickness there has been in the P.G.

From Letters from Mesopotamia in 1915 and January, 1916, from Robert Palmer, who was killed in the Battle of Um El Hannah, June 21, 1916, aged 27 years by Palmer, Robert Stafford Arthur

He kept the household Pg. 11so stirred up with his stories, recitations and continual ebullitions, which so fairly entranced his Grannie and Grandpa and the cousins, that the whole household economy was disordered.

From James Watt by Carnegie, Andrew

The "limited monarchy" of to-day, developed during the admirable reign of Queen Victoria, has Pg. 208taken its place.

From James Watt by Carnegie, Andrew

If we add the British colonies and dependencies, 7,120,000 horse-power, the English-speaking Pg. 197race had three-fifths of all the steam-power of the world.

From James Watt by Carnegie, Andrew

This treatment has been given to: Pg. 33-37.

From British Borneo Sketches of Brunai, Sarawak, Labuan, and North Borneo by Treacher, W. H. (William Hood), Sir

How to harness this power and to store it—that is the problem of the inventor and the Pg. 52engineer of the twentieth century, a problem which in good time is sure to be solved.

From James Watt by Carnegie, Andrew

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