Egg (disambiguation)

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An egg is an organic vessel in which an embryo begins to develop.

Egg, EGG or eggs may also refer to:

Biology

  • Egg cell, the female reproductive cell (gamete) in oogamous organisms

Food

  • Egg as food

Places

People

  • Augustus Egg
    (1816–1863), English artist
  • Mr Egg (born 1959), Scottish musician, born James Matthew McDonald
  • Oscar Egg (1890–1961), Swiss racing cyclist

Arts, entertainment, and media

Fictional entities

  • Egg, the name of the inhabited neutron star in the book Dragon's Egg by Robert L. Forward
  • Aegon V Targaryen, nicknamed "Egg", a titular character from the Tales of Dunk and Egg stories by George R. R. Martin
  • Ann Veal
    , also known as Egg, a character on the show Arrested Development

Films

Games

  • Egg (video game)
    , a 1981 video game made by Nintendo
  • Elemental Gimmick Gear or EGG, a 1999 Sega Dreamcast game

Music

Groups

Albums

Television

  • The Eggs, an Australian-Canadian animated series
  • EGG, the Arts Show, a TV program
  • eGG HD
    , a TV channel by Astro Malaysia, focusing on e-sports

Other arts, entertainment, and media

Brands and enterprises

  • Egg (car), a Swiss car make in business from 1896 to 1919
  • Egg (chair), a chair designed by Arne Jacobsen in 1958
  • EG&G, an American defense contractor, founded in 1931 and defunct since 2009
  • Egg Banking, a British internet bank established in 1996
  • Egg London, a famous nightclub in England
  • L'Oeuf (the Egg), an aluminum and plexiglass car designed by Paul Arzens

Science and technology

  • EGG (file format)
    , a compressed archive file format used in computers
  • Python eggs
    , a format used by the Python programming language
  • Electrogastrogram, a graphic showing electrical signals in the stomach muscles
  • Electroglottograph, a device for measuring vocal fold movement
  • Evaporating gaseous globule, a type of interstellar gas cloud that is thought to give rise to new stars

Other uses

  • Darning egg
    , a sewing tool
  • EGG Project
    , or Global Consciousness Project, a parapsychology experiment begun in 1998 at Princeton University
  • Erbgesundheitsgericht
    , the Genetic Health Court of Nazi Germany
  • World egg
    or Cosmic egg, a mythological motif found in the creation myths of many cultures and civilizations
  • Egging, the act of throwing eggs at people or property
  • Egg, in LGBT slang a transgender person who has not yet realized that they are trans

See also