• IPA: /dɛɡ/

Abbreviations

deg

1. (math, countable) Abbreviation of degree
2. (motorsports, uncountable) Clipping of degradation

deg (degs, present participle degging; simple past and past participle degged)

1. (Northern England, dialectal) To sprinkle, moisten.
   • 1881, Gerard Manley Hopkins, “Inversnaid”, in Robert Bridges, editor, Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins: Now First Published […], London: Humphrey Milford, published 1918, →OCLC ↗, stanza 3, page 53 ↗:

     Degged with dew, dappled with dew / Are the groins of the braes that the brook treads through, / Wiry heathpacks, flitches of fern, / And the beadbonny ash that sits over the burn.

deg

1. (astronomy) Initialism of dwarf elliptical galaxy
2. (uncountable, organic chemistry) Init of diethylene glycol

• dE

• ElG
• gE
• dI
• DIG
• dSph

• EG (ethylene glycol)
• MEG (monoethylene glycol)
• TEG (triethylene glycol)
• PEG (polyethylene glycol)

deg (plural degs)

1. (galaxy) Initialism of dwarf elliptical galaxy

• dE

• dIG, dI
• dSph