erg
IPA: ˈɝg
noun
- A unit of work or energy, being the amount of work done by a force of one dyne applied through a distance of one centimeter. Equal to 10⁻⁷ joules.
- (geomorphology) A large desert region of sand dunes with little or no vegetation, especially in the Sahara.
- (rowing, slang) An ergometer.
- (chemistry) Initialism of electron-releasing group.
- (business) Initialism of employee resource group.
- (ophthalmology) Initialism of electroretinogram. [the chart or graph produced by electroretinography]
- (UK politics) Initialism of European Research Group (“Eurosceptic/pro-Brexit publicly funded political activist group subdivision of the UK Conservatives”).
verb
- (rowing, slang, transitive, intransitive) To use an ergometer.
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Examples of "erg" in Sentences
- The name erg is derived from the Greek word ergon meaning "work".
- "Work" is the Greek word erg, with which Paul urges us to make an event of our faith.
- An erg is the unit of energy and mechanical work in the centimeter-gram-second (CGS) system of units, symbol "erg".
- And you’re off like a shot, using that last bit of energy, the last erg from the gels and bars and the glycogen your muscles have saved.
- An erg is the unit of energy and mechanical work The erg is a small unit, equal to a force of one dyne exerted for a distance of one centimetre.
- Squampton: "Like many of us, I have both, but Midomi tends to find foreign songs a lot better ..." erg: "it's great to see sound recognition technologies starting to get broader use ...."
- The Technocrat has told us all kinds of silly things about abandoning our customary standard of values and substituting the scientific standard which is usually measured by an "erg" or an "umph".
- After riding with a band of a hundred men, twenty of them mounted, they spent the night at a place where there was what the Celts call an "erg" (_airigh_) but the Norse call "setr," the modern sheiling.
- So the form of the infinite and universal energy, which we may call erg-dynamic, is the cause of the waste of the body through which it works; and this is at once made good by the increased trophic metabolism which occurs, to replace the waste -- this increased trophic metabolism showing itself in increased O_2 intake and coincidently or correspondingly with increased CO_2 output.
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