PEG

See also: peg and Peg

English

Noun

PEG (countable and uncountable, plural PEGs)

1. (chemistry) Acronym of polyethylene glycol.
2. (medicine, countable) Initialism of percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy.
3. Initialism of price/earnings to growth.

   PEG ratio

4. (uncountable) Initialism of public, educational, and government (access television).
5. (computer science, countable) Initialism of parsing expression grammar.
   • 2010, Martin Fowler, Domain-Specific Languages‎^[1], Pearson Education, →ISBN:

     This is a form of grammar called a Parsing Expression Grammar (PEG). PEGs use a different form of grammar which can handle most context-free situations and some context-sensitive ones.

6. Abbreviation of pyroelectric generator.

Derived terms

polyethylene glycol

• PEGyl
• PEGylate
• PEGylated
• PEGylation

 

Related terms

polyethylene glycol

• DEG
• EG
• MEG
• PE
• TEG

 

pyroelectric generator

• EG
• TEG

 

Anagrams

• EPG