Og

See also: Appendix:Variations of "og"

Translingual

Etymology

From English oganesson.

Symbol

Og

1. (chemistry) Chemical symbol for oganesson.

   Synonym: (obsolete) Uuo

   • 2016 November 30, “IUPAC Announces the Names of the Elements 113, 115, 117, and 118”, in IUPAC‎^[1] (in English):

     Lastly, and in line with the tradition of honoring a scientist, the name oganesson and symbol Og for element 118 was proposed by the collaborating teams of discoverers at the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, Dubna (Russia) and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (USA) and recognizes Professor Yuri Oganessian (born 1933) for his pioneering contributions to transactinoid elements research.

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɒɡ/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Rhymes: -ɒɡ

Proper noun

Og

1. (very rare, outside the Bible) A male given name from Hebrew.
   • 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Deuteronomy 31:4:

     And the Lord shall do unto them as he did to Sihon and to Og, kings of the Amorites, and unto the land of them, whom he destroyed.

2. (humorous) Popular supposed name for a caveman or other prehistoric man.

See also

• Ug

Anagrams

• -go-, G.O., GO, Go, Goα, g'ô, go