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Definition: Hg

Part of Speech Definition
Noun 1. A heavy silvery toxic univalent and bivalent metallic element; the only metal that is liquid at ordinary temperatures.[Wordnet]
2. 100 grams.[Wordnet].

Source: WordNet 3.0 Copyright © 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

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"Hg" is a common misspelling or typo for: hug, GH, Ng, hog, hag, hr, HMG, TG, GG, BG, HH, HCG, HSG, hgt, HGP, OHG.

Date "Hg" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1706. (references)

Specialty Definition: Hg

Domain Definition
Aerospace 1: Hitchhiker Goddard Mission. (references)
  2: High Gain. (references)
Environment Mercury. (references)
Health HI General Documentation. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Common Expressions: Hg

Expressions Definition
Choro Q HG 2 Choro Q HG 2 (Choro Q High Grade 2), also known as Road Trip or Road Trip Adventure, is a video game for the PlayStation 2 developed by E-game (but commonly credited to Takara). The game was released in 2002 in Japan by Takara and in North America by Conspiracy Entertainment, and 2003 in Europe and other PAL regions by Play It. (references)
Choro Q HG 4 Choro Q HG 4, also known as ChoroQ, is a PlayStation 2 game published by Atlus in the US, Zoo Digital Publishing in PAL regions and Takara in Japan. It was developed by Barnhouse Effect. The game is marketed as a "Car-PG": a hybrid of driving and roleplaying games. (references)
Mm Hg A unit of pressure equal to 0.001316 atmosphere; named after Torricelli. Source: Wordnet 3.0 Copyright © 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
Roy and HG Roy & HG are a noted Australian comedy duo, with Greig Pickhaver,former Flinders Uni student politician, taking the role of HG Nelson and John Doyle as Roy Slaven. Their act is an affectionate parody of Australia's obsession with sport, their characters based on archetypes in sports journalism: Nelson the excitable announcer, Slaven the retired sportsman turned expert commentator. (references)

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Specialty Expressions: Hg

Expressions Domain Definition
In. Hg Environment Inches of mercury. (references)

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Abbreviations & Acronyms: Hg

The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted.
Entry Source Expression Field
HG English High Grade N/A
Mm Hg English Barometric millimeter of mercury Electrical Engineering, Meteorology & Standards
Hg. German Herausgeber N/A
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Extended Definition: Hg

Hg

HG and Hg may refer to:

  • Hg, the chemical symbol for mercury (element) (hydrargyrum).
  • Hg, the astronomical symbol for Mercury (planet)
  • mmHg, or Torr, a unit of pressure
  • hg, or hectogram, one tenth of a kilogram
  • Hg, the Biblical book of Haggai
  • HG, defunct magazine; successor to House & Garden (magazine)
  • HG, a member of the comedy duo Roy and HG
  • HG, the IATA code for the Niki airline
  • Hlinka Guard, the militia movement of the Slovak People's Party
  • HeavenGames, a network of computer gaming websites
  • Hyperemesis gravidarum, a severe form of morning sickness
  • Hard Gay, or Razor Ramon HG, the performing name of Japanese comedian Masaki Sumitani
  • HG, one of the levels used in the Gunpla grading system.
  • hg, the command-line interface to the Mercurial source management tool
  • Hyperglide - bicycle derailleur systems
  • The alternate name for the game Archer Maclean's Mercury.

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia; from the article "Hg". Image Credit.
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Topics by Level of Interest: Hg

Topics sorted by level of Interest Level (1=low, 600=high)     Topics sorted Alphabetically Level (1=low, 600=high)
The Dream with Roy and HG 8     Choro Q HG 4 3
Roy and HG 8     Hg 3
HG postcode area 7     HG postcode area 7
Library of Congress Classification:Class H, subclass HG -- Finance 6     Library of Congress Classification:Class H, subclass HG -- Finance 6
Hg 3     Roy and HG 8
Choro Q HG 4 3     The Dream with Roy and HG 8

Source: the editor, created by/for EVE to gauge likely levels of human interest in linguistically triggered topics (compiled across various sources, such as Wikipedia and specialty expression glosses).

"hg" is a common misspelling or typo for: hug, GH, Ng, hog, hag, hr, HMG, TG, GG, BG, HH, HCG, HSG, hgt, HGP, OHG.

Synonyms: hg
Position Synonyms (sorted by strength)

Noun

 Mercury, quicksilver.

Other

 hectogram, hydrargyrum, metallic element.

Expression

 atomic number.
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Computed Synonyms: Hg

 Rank

 Intensity 

 Word

 Synonyms

 Synonyms of synonym

 1   3.0092   Hg     Mercury     quicksilver, messenger, mercurial, hydrargyrum, ambassador   
 2   2.0088   Hg     quicksilver     Mercury, hydrargyrum, rib, quick, bright   
 3   1.0190   Hg     hydrargyrum     Mercury, quicksilver, rib, argentum, warm   
 4   1.0093   Hg     lively     brisk, vivacious, gay, smart, quick   
 5   1.0092   Hg     uranium     Uranus, actinium, hydrargyrum, U, unstable element   
 6   1.0090   Hg     vivacious     lively, brisk, sprightly, spirited, active   
Source: calculated by Eve using graph theory. "Intensity" is a score indicating the number of overlapping cliques where the word pair is found (an integer before the decimal); the first digit after the decimal is the number of overlapping terminal characters up to 9; the second characters is number of leading common characters up to 9; the last two digits measure the Levenshtein distance subtracted from 100. Top

Computed Expressions: Hg

 Rank

 Intensity 

 Expression

 Synonyms

 Synonyms of synonym

 1   13.0181   mm Hg     millimetre of Mercury     barometric millimetre of Mercury, millimeter of Mercury   
 2   13.0181   mm Hg     millimeter of Mercury     barometric millimeter of Mercury, millimetre of Mercury   
 3   13.0170   mm Hg     barometric millimetre of Mercury     barometric millimeter of Mercury, millimetre of Mercury   
 4   13.0170   mm Hg     barometric millimeter of Mercury     barometric millimetre of Mercury, millimeter of Mercury   
 5   10.0094   mm Hg     torr     millimeter of Mercury, barometric millimeter of Mercury   
 6   1.2298   mm Hg     mmHg     millimetre of Mercury, barometric millimeter of Mercury   
 7   1.0194   mm Hg     husky     strong, hefty   
 8   1.0180   mm Hg     millimeters of Mercury         
 9   1.0094   mm Hg     dry     arid, barren   
 10   1.0094   mm Hg     drily     barrenly, desiccately   
 11   1.0094   mm Hg     clean     clear, pure   
 12   1.0094   mm Hg     arid     dry, barren   
 13   1.0092   mm Hg     dryness     drought, aridity   
 14   1.0092   mm Hg     droughty     dry, arid   
 15   1.0091   mm Hg     bone-dry     dry, bone dry   
--------------------     6 expressions ranked from 16 to 21 abridged     --------------------

Source: calculated by Eve using graph theory. "Intensity" is a score indicating the number of overlapping cliques where the word pair is found (an integer before the decimal); the first digit after the decimal is the number of overlapping terminal characters up to 9; the second characters is number of leading common characters up to 9; the last two digits measure the Levenshtein distance subtracted from 100. Top

Translations: Hg

Language Translations (or nearest inflections or synonyms, in parentheses)
Chinese Simplified 百克 (hectogram, hectogramme, hg). Additional references: Chinese Simplified, China, Brunei, Hg. (volunteer & more translations)
Chinese Traditional 百克 (hectogramme, hg), 汞 (broad, float, Mercury, vast, pan-), 公釐水銀柱 (millimeters of Mercury, mm Hg). Additional references: Chinese Traditional, China, Brunei, Hg. (volunteer & more translations)
Finnish elohopea (quicksilver, Mercury, Hg, lively, vivacious). Additional references: Finnish, Finland, Russia (Europe), Hg. (volunteer & more translations)
Français hg (hg). Additional references: Français, France, Algeria, Hg. (volunteer & more translations)
French hg (hg). Additional references: French, France, Algeria, Hg. (volunteer & more translations)
Japanese テルル化カドミウム水銀 (Hg), 水銀 (Mercury, quicksilver, hydrargyrum, Hg, mercurial). Additional references: Japanese, Japan, Taiwan, Hg. (volunteer & more translations)
Suomea elohopea (quicksilver, Mercury, Hg, lively, vivacious). Additional references: Suomea, Finland, Russia (Europe), Hg. (volunteer & more translations)
Suomi elohopea (quicksilver, Mercury, Hg, lively, vivacious). Additional references: Suomi, Finland, Russia (Europe), Hg. (volunteer & more translations)
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Constructed Language Translations: Hg

Language Translations for “Hg” or closest synonym(s); back translations in parentheses.
Pig Latin Hgay (Hg). Additional references: Pig Latin, Hg. (volunteer)
Terran B elohopea (Hg). Additional references: Terran B, Hg. (volunteer)
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