Aug
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Aug or AUG may refer to:
- An abbreviation of August, the eighth month of the year in the Gregorian calendar
- Augusta State AirportAugusta State AirportAugusta State Airport is a public use airport located one nautical mile northwest of the central business district of Augusta, a city in Kennebec County, Maine, United States. It is owned by the state of Maine, but managed and operated by the city of Augusta. The airport is mostly used for...
in Augusta, Maine (IATA Code: AUG) - Steyr AUGSteyr AUGThe AUG is an Austrian bullpup 5.56mm assault rifle, designed in the early 1970s by Steyr Mannlicher GmbH & Co KG . The AUG was adopted by the Austrian Army as the StG 77 in 1977, where it replaced the 7.62mm StG 58 automatic rifle...
, an Austrian series of firearms - Start codonStart codonThe start codon is generally defined as the point, sequence, at which a ribosome begins to translate a sequence of RNA into amino acids.When an RNA transcript is "read" from the 5' carbon to the 3' carbon by the ribosome the start codon is the first codon on which the tRNA bound to Met,...
, the three-nucleotide sequence that starts translation of mRNA, and codes for the amino acidAmino acidAmino acids are molecules containing an amine group, a carboxylic acid group and a side-chain that varies between different amino acids. The key elements of an amino acid are carbon, hydrogen, oxygen, and nitrogen...
MethionineMethionineMethionine is an α-amino acid with the chemical formula HO2CCHCH2CH2SCH3. This essential amino acid is classified as nonpolar. This amino-acid is coded by the codon AUG, also known as the initiation codon, since it indicates mRNA's coding region where translation into protein... - Aztlan UndergroundAztlan UndergroundAztlan Underground is a fusion band from Los Angeles. Since early 1989, Aztlan Underground has played Rapcore. Indigenous drums, flutes, and rattles are commonplace in its musical compositions....
, an activist rock en Español and hip hop group - Applicative Universal GrammarApplicative Universal GrammarApplicative Universal Grammar, or AUG, is a universal semantic metalanguage intended for studying the semantic processes in particular languages....
, a linguistic theory - an augmented chord
- AUG is an abbreviation for the digital gold currencyDigital gold currencyDigital gold currency is a form of electronic money based on ounces of gold. It is a kind of representative money, like a US paper gold certificate at the time that these were exchangeable for gold on demand. The typical unit of account for such currency is the gold gram or the troy ounce,...
unit "grams of gold, payable in e-gold" (AU being the chemical symbol for gold, G representing grams) - Augusta Railroad, defunct Arkansas railroad
- The codon for the amino acid MethionineMethionineMethionine is an α-amino acid with the chemical formula HO2CCHCH2CH2SCH3. This essential amino acid is classified as nonpolar. This amino-acid is coded by the codon AUG, also known as the initiation codon, since it indicates mRNA's coding region where translation into protein...