Dag
Encyclopedia
Places
- Dág a village
- DągDag-Places:*Dág , a village*Dąg, a village in Poland*DAG, the British National Rail station code for Dalgety Bay railway station, Scotland*DAG, the IATA code for Barstow-Daggett Airport, California, USA...
, a village in Poland - DAG, the British National Rail station code for Dalgety Bay railway stationDalgety Bay railway stationDalgety Bay railway station serves the town of Dalgety Bay in Fife, Scotland. Lying on the Fife Circle and Edinburgh to Aberdeen lines, it is managed by First ScotRail...
, Scotland - DAG, the IATA code for Barstow-Daggett AirportBarstow-Daggett AirportBarstow-Daggett Airport is a county-owned public-use airport in San Bernardino County, California, United States. It is located four nautical miles east of the central business district of the town of Daggett, and east of the city of Barstow...
, California, USA - Dag (lunar crater), a minor crater on the moon (named after the Scandinavian first name, see below)
People
- David Alan GrierDavid Alan GrierDavid Alan Grier , also known as "D.A.G." , is an American actor and comedian known for his work on the sketch comedy television show In Living Color.-Early life:...
(born 1956), American actor and comedian - Itamar Dag (born 1996)
Culture
- Dag or DagrDagrIn Norse mythology, Dagr is day personified. This personification appears in the Poetic Edda, compiled in the 13th century from earlier traditional sources, and the Prose Edda, written in the 13th century by Snorri Sturluson...
, the god of daytime in Norse mythology and a common Scandinavian first name - DAG (TV series)DAG (TV series)DAG is an American sitcom that aired from November 2000 to May 2001 on NBC. It was named after its star, David Alan Grier, who stars as United States Secret Service agent Jerome Daggett. Daggett's name, in turn, is a back-formation...
, a television series starring David Alan Grier - Rick "Dag" Dagless, a character on the TV series Garth Marenghi's Darkplace
- DAG (newspaper)DAG (newspaper)DAG was a freely distributed Dutch-language tabloid newspaper in the Netherlands. The paper was released jointly by publishing company PCM and telecommunications company KPN...
, the name of a former freely distributed Dutch newspaper - Demented Are GoDemented Are GoDemented Are Go are a Welsh psychobilly band that was formed around 1982 in Cardiff. They were one of the earliest in the initial wave of bands to mix punk rock with rockabilly, and as a result, are considered to be highly influential to the psychobilly scene....
, Welsh psychobilly band - DAG (band)DAG (band)DAG were a funk alternative band from Raleigh, North Carolina which formed in 1989 and disbanded in 1999.The band of singer and bassist Bobby Patterson, guitarist Brian Dennis, drummer Kenny Soule and keyboardist Doug Jervey had already earned many loyal listeners around their hometown over the...
, a funk alternative band from North Carolina - DAG (former Yugoslav band)DAG (former Yugoslav band)DAG , also known as Trio DAG were a former Yugoslav acoustic rock band from Belgrade.-Band history:The band was formed in 1972 by Dragan Popović , and brothers Grujica and Aleksandar Milanović...
, a former Yugoslav acoustic rock band - DAGalicious, To endulge in Rusty's dags.
Science and technology
- DAG TechnologyDAG TechnologyDAG technology is a combination of hardware design and software , based on a programmable chip. It uses a uniquely designed memory buffer that allows network packets to be copied into onboard memory at extremely high speeds without dropping any packets...
, the technology of a family of network traffic capture adapters - DAG, DiacylglycerolDiglycerideA diglyceride, or a diacylglycerol , is a glyceride consisting of two fatty acid chains covalently bonded to a glycerol molecule through ester linkages....
or diglyceride, a type of molecule important in physiology and used as food additives - DAG, Directed acyclic graphDirected acyclic graphIn mathematics and computer science, a directed acyclic graph , is a directed graph with no directed cycles. That is, it is formed by a collection of vertices and directed edges, each edge connecting one vertex to another, such that there is no way to start at some vertex v and follow a sequence of...
, a type of graph used in computer science and mathematics - dag, symbol for decagram, a unit of mass equal to ten gramGramThe gram is a metric system unit of mass....
s - daG, symbol for decagauss, a unit of magnetic flux density (a.k.a. magnetic induction) equal to ten gaussGauss (unit)The gauss, abbreviated as G, is the cgs unit of measurement of a magnetic field B , named after the German mathematician and physicist Carl Friedrich Gauss. One gauss is defined as one maxwell per square centimeter; it equals 1 tesla...
- dag, abbreviation of AquadagAquadagAquadag is a trade name for a graphite based coating commonly found in cathode ray tubes. It is manufactured by Acheson Industries, a subsidiary of ICI. The name is a shortened form of "Aqueous Deflocculated Acheson Graphite". Other related products include Oildag, Electrodag and Molydag. The...
, a graphite-based electrode coating commonly found on cathode-ray tubesCathode ray tubeThe cathode ray tube is a vacuum tube containing an electron gun and a fluorescent screen used to view images. It has a means to accelerate and deflect the electron beam onto the fluorescent screen to create the images. The image may represent electrical waveforms , pictures , radar targets and... - DAG, Database Availability Group, a Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 high availability technology
- DAG, Data Address Generator, a mechanism which generates temporary memory addresses for data that is transferred between memory and registers in a Digital Signal Processor
Other uses
- dag, the ISO 639-3 code for the Dagbani languageDagbani languageDagbani is a Gur language spoken in Ghana. Its native speakers are primarily of the Dagomba people, but Dagbani is also widely known as a first language in northern Ghana.-Vowels:Dagbani has eleven phonemic vowels: six short and five long vowels:...
spoken in Ghana - Dag, a clump of fecesFecesFeces, faeces, or fæces is a waste product from an animal's digestive tract expelled through the anus or cloaca during defecation.-Etymology:...
stuck to the wool of a sheep, also used in Australia as a term of friendly abuse - Dag (subculture), an Australian subculture (originally from preceding use)
- Dagging, in sheep husbandrySheep husbandrySheep husbandry is a subcategory of animal husbandry specifically dealing with the raising and breeding of domestic sheep. Sheep farming is primarily based on raising lambs for meat, or raising sheep for wool. Sheep may also be raised for milk or to sell to other farmers.-Shelter and...
, removing dags from a sheep - DAG, Deputy Attorney GeneralDeputy Attorney GeneralDeputy Attorney General is the second-highest-ranking official in a department of justice or of law, in various governments of the world. In those governments, the Deputy Attorney General oversees the day-to-day operation of the department, and may act as Attorney General during the absence of...
, a high-ranking post in a national department of justice or law - DAG, Defense Acquisition GuideDefense Acquisition GuideThe Defense Acquisition Guidebook is a text developed to aid in the understanding and implementation of United States Department of Defense Acquisition practices under the DoD Directive 5000 series...
, a guidebook for military acquisition in the US - or German Salaried Employees' UnionGerman Salaried Employees' UnionThe German Salaried Employees' Union, in German Deutsche Angestellten-Gewerkschaft was an independent trade union based in Hamburg...
, a former independent trade union in Germany