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
[edit]- Egg cell, the female reproductive cell (gamete) in oogamous organisms
Food
[edit]Places
[edit]People
[edit]- 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
[edit]Fictional entities
[edit]- 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
- The Egg, an antagonist featured in two episodes of the animated series Count Duckula; "00 Duck", series 3, episode 12 (1991) and "Venice a Duck, Not a Duck!", series 4, episode 13 (1991)
- Eggs Trubshaw, the protagonist of the 2014 animated film The Boxtrolls
Films
[edit]- Egg (2007 film), a 2007 Turkish-Greek drama
- Egg (2018 film), a 2018 American comedy film
- Eggs (film) a 1995 Norwegian comedy
Games
[edit]- Egg (video game), a 1981 video game made by Nintendo
- EGG Console, also known as Project EGG for Nintendo Switch, a brand of classic games by D4 Enterprise#EGG ConsoleD4 Enterprise
- Elemental Gimmick Gear or EGG, a 1999 Sega Dreamcast game
Music
[edit]Groups
[edit]- Egg (band), English group founded 1969
- Eggs (band), an American group founded 1990
- The Egg (band), a British electronic dance music band
Albums
[edit]- Egg (album), an album by Egg
Television
[edit]- 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
[edit]- Egg (magazine), a Japanese style magazine published since 1995
- Eggs (novel), a novel by Jerry Spinelli, published in 2007
- "The Egg" (de Camp short story), a short story by L. Sprague de Camp published in 1956
- "The Egg" (Weir short story) a short story by Andy Weir published in 2009
Brands and enterprises
[edit]- 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
[edit]- EGG (file format), a compressed archive file format used in computers
- 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
[edit]- 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