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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

The former number, of actual surfaces of order n − 4 with the assigned particularity in regard to the singularities of the surface, is now denoted by pg.

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

No anchor points for Footnotes 3 through 6 or 34 appear in the original text though the footnotes are included in the "Notes to Chapters" beginning on pg.

From The Planters of Colonial Virginia by Wertenbaker, Thomas Jefferson

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 79 The various editions differ from one another in this measure.

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

The PG release will test if the comedian’s pull extends to the multiplex, where original family comedies are virtually extinct.

From The Wall Street Journal May 15, 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

Procter & Gamble PG -0.64%decrease; red down pointing triangle posted slightly higher revenue in its latest quarter as higher prices helped offset a decline in volumes.

From The Wall Street Journal Jan. 22, 2026

She’d never sit through a PG movie with me, for instance, so I ended up seeing a lot of movies that were totally age-inappropriate.

From "Auggie & Me" by R. J. Palacio

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

Gramont was changed to Grammont on pg. xxiii.

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

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 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 Romanes, George John

It is a pg. 3matter of observable fact that all plants and animals are perpetually engaged in what Mr. Darwin calls a “struggle for existence.”

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

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

What’s the use of a great city having temptations, as P.G.

From New York Times Dec. 19, 2022

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

This is the guiding metaphor of the book, which he takes from the Jeeves and Wooster novels of P.G.

From Washington Post Jul. 15, 2022

So mote it be The Procession will return in inverse order to the P.G.

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

Sp. batallador a great combatant, he who has fought many battles, Pg. batalhador, Pr. batalhador, warrior, soldier, fr.

From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (2nd 100 Pages) by Webster, Noah

Constant communication between them was kept up by letter, for the engine Pg. 109did not work satisfactorily, and finally Watt himself proceeded to London in November and succeeded in overcoming the defects.

From James Watt by Carnegie, Andrew

There was no peace Pg. 62for him otherwise.

From James Watt by Carnegie, Andrew

At first he was able to carry out all his orders himself; now he had as Pg. 60many as sixteen workmen.

From James Watt by Carnegie, Andrew

Thus Watt made his start in London, the Pg. 30twenty pounds premium being duly remitted from home.

From James Watt by Carnegie, Andrew

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