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DG
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Appendix:Variations of "dg"
Translingual
Symbol
1 2 1 Diego Garcia
mul DGA ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 alpha-3
Usage notes
the International Telecommunication Union recording the location of certain telecommunications installations
English
Adverb
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en Deo gratia "by the grace of God" / Deo gratias "thanks to God".
en a. 1866 John Keble Letters of Spiritual Counsel and Guidance 186 My dear wife (D.G.) bore up well through the nursing.
en 1961 Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa The Leopard Archibald Colquhoun (translator) Archibald Colquhoun Vintage 2007 7 [T]he whole administration of the kingdom here attained its final phase, that of signature by His Majesty (D.G.).
Noun
en dirty girl.
en director-general.
en dangerous goods.
en grammar en dependency grammar.
en military en guided-missile destroyer, a type of destroyer warship.
Proper noun
en computing historical en w:Data General.
28 May 1985 Peter H. Lewis PERIPHERALS; NEW PORTABLE PRINTERS https://web.archive.org/web/20150524172918/https://www.nytimes.com/1985/05/28/science/peripherals-new-portable-printers.html The DG printer warns the user when the batteries get low, after six to eight hours of normal use, or when paper and ribbon are running out.
1 December 2000 w:Evan Ratliff O, Engineers! https://web.archive.org/web/20151221205620/https://www.wired.com/2000/12/soul/ At the time, DG was a player in the multibillion-dollar minicomputer market, part of the late-'70s "Massachusetts miracle" of high tech development.
en 18 June 2010 Ernest von Simson Field Force and Counterforce: DEC, HP, and IBM in Battle Mode The Limits of Strategy: Lessons in Leadership from the Computer Industry Bloomington, Ind. w:iUniverse 276 https://archive.org/details/limitsofstrategy0000sims/page/276/mode/1up 978-1-4401-9260-9 In the end, DG captured its share of commercial distributed-computing sales, partially through its aggressive selling approach and partially through its technical ability to attract high-profile designers of the most elegant minicomputer systems, like Southern Railway.
Derived terms
en DG/UX
Further reading
Anagrams
en dg G-d GD g-d gd
German
Noun
de noun
de apartment listing de Dachgeschoss
de EG OG KG UG
References
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