# 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 and organizations
### 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
* US Navy hull designation for guided-missile cruisers

### 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, science, and technology
### 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