plural of erg

plural of ERG

The 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.

(geomorphology) A large desert region of sand dunes with little or no vegetation, especially in the Sahara.

(rowing, slang) An ergometer.

(rowing, slang, transitive, intransitive) To use an ergometer.

(linguistics) The property of a grammar's (or, by extension, a language's) being ergative; the attribute of possessing a grammatical pattern such that the object of a transitive verb is treated the same way as the subject of an intransitive one, while the subject of the transitive verb is treated differently.

(grammar) With the subject of a transitive construction having grammatical cases or thematic relations different from that of an intransitive construction.

Ellipsis of ergative case (“a grammatical case used to indicate the agent of a transitive verb in ergative-absolutive languages”). / An ergative verb or other expression.

plural of ergative