Usually means: Unit of energy in physics.
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General (22 matching dictionaries)
  1. erg, erg-: Merriam-Webster
  2. erg, erg: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. erg: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. erg: Collins English Dictionary
  5. erg: Vocabulary.com
  6. Erg, erg: Wordnik
  7. ERG, erg: Wiktionary
  8. erg: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. erg: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. erg: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. ERG, erg-: Dictionary.com
  12. erg: Online Etymology Dictionary
  13. ERG (gene), Erg (comics), Erg (disambiguation), Erg (indoor rower), Erg (landform), Erg: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. Erg: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. erg: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. erg: Rhymezone
  17. Erg: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. erg: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  19. erg: FreeDictionary.org
  20. erg: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  21. erg: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. erg: TheFreeDictionary.com

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. erg-, erg-: A Cross Reference of Latin and Greek Elements

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Erg (landform), Erg (unit), erg: Encyclopedia

Medicine (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. ERG: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. ERG: MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary
  4. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  5. Erg (unit), -erg-, erg, erg-: Medical dictionary
  6. ERG: Drug Medical Dictionary

Miscellaneous (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. ERG: Acronym Finder
  2. erg: A Word A Day
  3. ERG: Three Letter Words with definitions
  4. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
  5. erg: Wordcraft Dictionary

Science (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. Erg: Solar Radiation Resource Terms
  2. Erg: Eric Weisstein's World of Physics
  3. ERG, erg: Extragalactic Astronomy
  4. ERG: Cytokines & Cells Online Pathfinder Encyclopaedia
  5. How Many? A Dictionary of Units of Measurement (No longer online)

Tech (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Glossary of Meteorology (No longer online)
  2. Glossary of Energy Terms (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (ERG)

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.
noun:  (geomorphology) A large desert region of sand dunes with little or no vegetation, especially in the Sahara.
noun:  (rowing, slang) An ergometer.
verb:  (rowing, slang, transitive, intransitive) To use an ergometer.
noun:  (chemistry) Initialism of electron-releasing group.
noun:  (business) Initialism of employee resource group.
noun:  (ophthalmology) Initialism of electroretinogram. [the chart or graph produced by electroretinography]
noun:  (UK politics) Initialism of European Research Group (“Eurosceptic/pro-Brexit publicly funded political activist group subdivision of the UK Conservatives”).

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