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Definition: Erg |
ErgNoun1. A cgs unit of work or energy; the work done by a force of one dyne acting over a distance of one centimeter. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Etymology: Erg \Erg\, noun. [Greek expression work.]. (Websters 1913) |
| Domain | Definitions |
Aerospace | The unit of energy or work in the centimeter-gram-second system; the work performed by a force of 1 dyne acting through a distance of 1 centimeter. (references) |
Energy | A unit of work done by the force of one dyne acting through a distance of one centimeter. (references) |
Physics | A cgs unit of energy equal to work done by a force of 1 dyne acting over a distance of 1 cm.107 (ten million) erg s-1 (ergs per second) = 1 watt. Also, 1 Calorie = 4.2 x 1010 (42 billion) ergs. (references) |
Solar | A metric unit of energy (dyne-cm). A joule is 100,000 ergs. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| 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 |
Erg | Dutch | Eenheid van arbeid | N/A |
erg | English | Unit of work(energy) | N/A |
ERG | French | électrorétinogramme | Medicine |
ERG | German | Elektroretinogramm | Medicine |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
Crosswords: Erg |
| English words defined with "erg": Physical unit ♦ Unit of work. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "erg": 1 erg ♦ energy density, Energy Flux ♦ intensity of radiation ♦ nuclear magneton ♦ Planck constant ♦ radiation constants. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "erg": Kilerg ♦ Megerg. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Erg" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. Afrikaan (important, serious), Albanian (erg), Dutch (important, quite, serious, very, very much), French (erg), German (erg), Italian (erg), Manx (erg), Serbo-Croatian (erg), Swedish (erg), Turkish (erg, ergon). |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Longen uwluchten uwleven : Wat is Cara? Hoe erg is Cara? Informatie over Cara is noodzakelijk....Credit: National Library of Medicine. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Trade | Switzerland | In July 1996, the Federal Council extended the ERG program to selected private default risks, particularly those involving credit guaranteed by Eastern European banks. (references) |
Switzerland | ERG coverage does not include nonpayment of private debtors, damages due to complaints about defective goods delivered or services rendered, or losses incurred due to revaluation of the Swiss franc. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Erg" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 82.35% of the time. "Erg" is used about 17 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 82.35% | 14 | 93,893 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 5.88% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Noun (proper) | 5.88% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Noun (common) | 5.88% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 17 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Country | Name | Country | Name |
| Australia | ERG Limited | Italy | Erg Spa |
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Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.
Expression using "erg": 1 erg. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "erg": erg-second. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
erg | 114 | erg test | 3 |
erg valve | 22 | alderfers erg theory | 3 |
erg je man niet | 20 | alderfer erg theory | 2 |
erg theory | 15 | 2000 erg | 2 |
erg music | 9 | 6 6io5 df erg fdhsdjklrjhekltiortlrio6lwetl g.l45 gtjwetmjwdxd l p3r6i8r5 pg py6o5tyloriltloreo rlt564o t t towetlo43 yoler | 2 |
erg international | 8 | erg machine | 2 |
erg inc | 5 | 121 erg yamaha | 2 |
consultancy erg | 4 | erg furniture | 2 |
erg teoria | 3 | erg group | 2 |
calculator erg | 3 | erg projects.net | 2 |
erg need relatedness theory | 3 | erg system transit | 2 |
carolinas erg | 3 | ||
erg system transit | 2 | ||
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "erg"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | erg. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | الأرغ وحد الطاقة. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | ерг. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | " . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | erg. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | erg. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | έργιο, μονάδα εργασίασ ή ενέργειασ. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | homokbuckás terület a szaharában. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | kesatuan (conglomerate, corps, unit), kekuatan (efficacy, energy, might, strength, vigour). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | erg. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | エリキシル剤 (Educational Resources Information Center, El Dorado, El Nino, El Salvador, elixir, Elysium, erbium, ergonomics, ERIC, erythromycin, erythropoietin, Jerusalem, L size, large size, LP record, LSD). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | エルグ . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | erg. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ergay heretismo. (various references) эрг (e erg, ergone). (various references) erg, elektroretinogram. (various references) ergio. (various references) erg. (various references) พื้นที่ในทะเลทรายที่มีลมพั"กวา"ทำให้ทรายปลิวไปมา โ"ยเฉพาะในทะเลทรายซาฮาร่า, หน่วยวั"ของพลังงานในระบบเซนติเมตร-กรัม-วินาที 1 erg มีค่าเท่ากับ 107 joule. (various references) erg (ergon), enerji birimi. (various references) ерг. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Greek | 700 BCE-300 CE | ergon. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "erg": ergastic, ergastoplasm, ergastoplasmic, ergastoplasms, ergate, ergates, ergative, ergo, ergodic, ergodicities, ergodicity, ergograph, ergographs, ergometer, ergometers, ergometric, ergonomic, ergonomically, ergonomics, ergonomist, ergonomists, ergonovine, ergonovines, ergosterol, ergosterols, ergot, ergotamine, ergotamines, ergotic, ergotism, ergotisms, ergotized, ergots, ergs. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "erg": berg, iceberg, inselberg, svedberg. (additional references) | |
Words containing "erg": absterge, absterged, absterges, absterging, adrenergic, adrenergically, afterglow, afterglows, allergen, allergenic, allergenicities, allergenicity, allergens, allergic, allergies, allergin, allergins, allergist, allergists, allergy, ambergris, ambergrises, anergia, anergias, anergic, anergies, anergy, antiallergenic, antiallergenics, anticholinergic, anticholinergics, antimerger, asperges, aspergilla, aspergilli, aspergilloses, aspergillosis, aspergillum, aspergillums, aspergillus, auberge, auberges, aubergine, aubergines, bergamot, bergamots, bergere, bergeres, bergs, bioenergetic, bioenergetics. (additional references) | |
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"Erg" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Aefg, derg, edg, edr, efg, Efgh, egb, egh, egn, Egr, egw, ehg, eig, Eirig, ekg, elg, emg, Engh, engl, enr, eog, epg, eprg, Erb, erd, ereg, erfg, ergcm, erge, ergk, ergy, erh, eri, Erig, erj, erl, erm, eroge, erp, erq, Errgh, Errh, erri, errm, errt, ert, eru, erv, erw, erx, Erz, etr, eug, eurgh, ewg, exr, ferg, gerg, Igr, igrf, irg, jerg, merg, nerg, orgg, reg, regr, rg, serg, ugr, vegr, verg, werg, Xeg. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words ending with "Erg": Berg. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: reg. | |
| Words within the letters "e-g-r" | |
-1 letter: er, re. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-g-r" | |
+1 letter: ager, berg, dreg, eger, ergo, ergs, gear, germ, goer, gore, gree, grew, grey, grue, gyre, ogre, rage, regs, urge. | |
+2 letters: agers, agger, agree, anger, argle, argue, auger, barge, bergs, cager, dirge, dregs, eager, eagre, edger, egers, eggar, egger, egret, ergot, erugo, forge, gager, gamer, gaper, gayer, gazer, gears, genre, genro, gerah, germs, germy, giber, giver, glare, gluer, goers, gofer, goner, gored, gores, gorge, gorse, grace, grade, grape, grate, grave, graze, great, grebe, greed, greek, green, grees, greet, grego, greys, gride, grief, grime, gripe, grope, grove, gruel, grues, grume, gurge, gyred, gyres, huger, jager, lager, large, leger, liger, luger, marge, merge, ogler, ogres, pager, parge, purge, raged, ragee, rages, range, regal, reges, regma, regna, reign, renig, repeg, rerig, retag, ridge, roger, rogue, rouge, rugae, sager, sarge, serge, surge, targe, terga, tiger, urged, urger, urges, verge, wager, yager. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)45 72 67 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references). .-. --. |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000101 01110010 01100111 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)E r g |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0045 0072 0067 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)398473 |
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