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Plural of erg

regular plural

The plural of erg is ergs.

Forms of erg

Singularerg /ɜːɡ/
Pluralergs
Countablecountable

Plural of erg by meaning

  1. a unit of work or energy, being the amount of work done by a force of one dyne applied...: ergs
  2. a large desert region of sand dunes with little or no vegetation, especially in the...: ergs or areg

Ergs in a sentence

  • We have reached an energy level of 10 quindecillion ergs, or 10⁴⁹ ergs.1978, D. Wallechinsky, I. Wallace, A. Wallace, The People's Almanac Presents The Book of Lists, Bantam. From the entry quindecillion

Meaning of erg

  1. noun A unit of work or energy, being the amount of work done by a force of one dyne applied through a distance of one centimeter. Equal to 10⁻⁷ joules.
  2. noun A large desert region of sand dunes with little or no vegetation, especially in the Sahara.
  3. noun An ergometer.

Full definition of erg

Questions about the plural of erg

What is the plural of erg?
The plural of erg is ergs.
Is erg countable?
Erg is a countable noun.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: erg (page history and authors) and the entries of its forms. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws left out forms marked obsolete, archaic, rare or dialectal and added the examples. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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