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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

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

From Erthe Upon Erthe by Various

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

This e-text is divided into three segments, following the book’s divisions, with breaks at pg.

From The South of France—East Half by Black, C. B.

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

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 62 Rests Used Under or Over Notes What is the meaning of a rest above or below the notes of the treble clef?

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

“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

Of course, not every PG movie goes to infinity and beyond.

From The Wall Street Journal Nov. 22, 2025

He had been shot by a PG County officer, not in PG County, not even in D.C.,but somewhere in Northern Virginia.

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

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

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

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

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

I always know when I’m feeling blue, because I feel the gravitational pull of my long shelf of P.G.

From Los Angeles Times Apr. 18, 2025

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

“There is no better choice for a vacation than a P.G. Wodehouse book.”

From Washington Post Aug. 2, 2022

No soldier, doctor, or schoolmaster can, therefore, ever be a P.G.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 103, October 22, 1892 by Various

The solution lay right there and he would invent Pg. 55the needed appliances.

From James Watt by Carnegie, Andrew

There was no peace Pg. 62for him otherwise.

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

Steam enough could not be obtained, although the Pg. 47boiler seemed of ample capacity.

From James Watt by Carnegie, Andrew

Pg. 37-40, several paragraphs beginning 'Mr. Darymple's description....' to 'Singapore is to the straits of Malacca.'

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

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