CG

CG, Cg or cg may refer to:

Arts and entertainment

 * Chaotic Good, an alignment in the role-playing game Dungeons & Dragons
 * Classical guitar, a type of guitar

Businesses

 * Central of Georgia Railway, between Macon and Savannah, Georgia in the US
 * Chappe et Gessalin, a French automobile maker
 * Chaudhary Group, a multinational company based in Nepal
 * Cigna, formed in Hartford in 1865 as the Connecticut General Life Insurance Company
 * Colorado General Hospital, now known as University of Colorado Hospital
 * PNG Air, an airline from Papua New Guinea (IATA code CG)
 * The Carlyle Group, a private equity firm (stock symbol CG)

Military units

 * Ceremonial Guard, an ad hoc military unit in the Canadian Forces
 * Coast guard, a national organization responsible for various services at sea

Political parties

 * Galician Coalition, a Galician political party with a Galician nationalist and centrist ideology
 * Galician Convergence, a Galician political party with a moderate nationalist ideology, which describes itself as centrist, socially progressive and economically liberal

Other organizations

 * Common Ground (NYC), a non-profit that builds and runs supportive housing in New York City and elsewhere
 * Community Games, an Irish voluntary organisation for young people to experience sporting and cultural activities

Mathematics and computing

 * Cg (programming language), developed by NVIDIA
 * Categorial grammar, a term used for a family of formalisms in natural language syntax
 * Character generator, a device or software that produces static or animated text (such as crawls and rolls) for keying into a video stream for broadcast television
 * Computational geometry, the study of algorithms to solve problems stated in terms of geometry
 * Computer graphics, graphics created using computers and, more generally, the representation and manipulation of image data by a computer with help from specialized software and hardware
 * Computer-generated imagery, application of computer graphics to create or contribute to images in art
 * Conceptual graph, a formalism for knowledge representation
 * Conjugate gradient method, an algorithm for the numerical solution of particular systems of linear equations
 * Constraint Grammar, a methodological paradigm for natural language processing
 * Coherency Granule, usually the size of a CPU cache line
 * Clock gating, a way to lower clock tree power in an integrated circuit

Other uses in science and technology

 * Centigram (cg), a unit of mass in the SI system
 * Center of gravity, a point in a body that may be used to simplify description of gravitational interactions
 * Cloud-to-ground lightning, a type of lightning
 * Carbon group, also called group 14
 * Chorionic gonadotropin, a hormone produced by the placenta during pregnancy
 * A US Navy hull classification symbol: Guided-missile cruiser (CG)
 * Phosgene (military designation CG), a chemical weapon used during World War I

Places

 * Chhattisgarh, a state of India
 * Crna Gora, Montenegro
 * Democratic Republic of the Congo (FIPS Pub 10-4 and obsolete NATO digram)
 * Republic of the Congo (ISO country code), a state in Central Africa
 * .cg, the Internet country code top-level domain (ccTLD) for the Republic of the Congo
 * Cypress Gardens, an American theme park near Winter Haven, Florida, that operated from 1936 to 2009

Ranks and titles

 * Certified Genealogist, licensed by the Board for Certification of Genealogists
 * Commandant-General, a rank in several counties and is generally equivalent to that of Commandant
 * Commanding General, a commanding officer in the military that holds a general officer rank

Other uses

 * Complete game, in baseball, the act of a pitcher pitching an entire game without the benefit of a relief pitcher
 * Corporate Governance, a system of law and approaches by which corporations are directed and controlled