CG

See also: Appendix:Variations of "cg"

Translingual

Symbol

CG

1. (international standards) ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code for the Republic of the Congo.

   Synonym: COG (alpha-3)

English

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -iːdʒi

Noun

CG (plural CGs)

1. (visual effects, animation) Initialism of computer graphics.

   Synonym: CGI

2. (by extension) (video games, in a visual novel) A unique, static full-screen image, usually displayed to illustrate a significant event in the story.

   Coordinate term: event CG

   • 2016 March 7, Andrew Barker, “Steins;Gate”, in RPGFan‎^[1], archived from the original on 10 October 2019:

     Plenty of CGs pad out the adventure too, with beautiful art depicting the events that take place.

   • 2017 August 31, Marcus Estrada, “Review: A Hand in the Darkness”, in Hardcore Gamer‎^[2], archived from the original on 20 December 2020:

     There are a good number of CG scenes as well which provide even nicer artwork. Please note that though this is a visual novel on Steam, there are pretty steamy CGs in each route.

3. Initialism of cover girl.
4. (baseball) Initialism of complete games; the statistic reporting the number of games thrown by a pitcher.
5. (US, military, nautical) A guided missile cruiser.
6. (US, military, nautical) Initialism of coast guard.
7. (economics) Initialism of capital gain.
8. (ageplay, age regression) Initialism of caregiver.
9. (physics) Initialism of center of gravity.
   • 1996, Richard H. Graham, Col. USAF (Ret), SR-71 Revealed: The Inside Story, Zenith Press, →ISBN, page 46:

     If the CG was not where the crew wanted it to be, the pilot could manually move fuel around between tanks to change the CG with two switches. If he needed to move the CG forward, the Forward Transfer Switch was turned on, moving fuel in the right hand manifold forward into Tank-1 (at 950 pounds per minute).

10. (meteorology) Initialism of cloud-to-ground.
11. (cytology, embryology) Initialism of cortical granule.

Proper noun

CG

1. Abbreviation of Chhattisgarh: a state of India.

Anagrams

• GC

Japanese

Etymology

From English CG (“computer graphics” or “computer-generated”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ɕiːʑiː]

Noun

CG(シージー) • (shī-jī) 

1. digital art, especially referring to a singular drawing

   C(シー)G(ジー)集(しゅう)

   shī-jī-shū

   digital artwork collection

Derived terms

• 3DCG (3DCG)
• 2DCG (2DCG)