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RNG en · NOUN

Meanings

  1. (abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable) Initialism of random number generator.
  2. (countable, informal, uncountable) Initialism of random number generation. ▸ Randomness, variability, or luck, especially that produced by random number generation.
    • Jeez, I'm having terrible RNG today.
    • The combat in this game is way too RNG-based.
  3. (abbreviation, alt-of, countable, humorous, initialism, uncountable) Initialism of random number generation. ▸ Initialism of Random Number God.
  4. (abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable) Initialism of renewable natural gas.
    • J.B. Hunt has 200 compressed natural gas trucks, most of which have 12-liter engines. Over the past 12 months, the carrier introduced 15-liter RNG engines to its fleet. Full production of Cummins’ X15N natural gas engine got underway in September 2024. […] J.B. Hunt Transport Services — which ranks No. 3 on the Transport Topics Top 100 list of the largest for-hire carriers in North America, No. 1 on the intermodal sector list and No. 2 in the truckload/dedicated segment — has more than 22,000 trucks overall. J.B. Hunt trucks are fueled 8,000 times a day. The carrier buys the equivalent of 200 million gallons a year of diesel. But biodiesel, renewable diesel and RNG now account for 22% of J.B. Hunt’s total fuel by volume, said Mounce. “We’re going to convert hundreds more of these trucks” to RNG, Mounce said at American Trucking Associations’ Management Conference & Exhibition. “We’re in a spot now where we’re a lot closer to cost parity.” 2025 November 7, Keiron Greenhalgh, “Fleets Grow More Confident About RNG Powertrains. OEMs’ Introduction of X15N Engine Builds On-Highway Support”, in Transport Topics:

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RNGs Number=Plur lexicographic

Deriveds

pseudorandom number generator · quantum random number generator · QRNG · RNG gods · RNGesus · quasirandom number generator · PRNG

Relateds

CNG · liquified natural gas · compressed natural gas · NG · natural gas · LNG

Synonyms

biomethane

Translations (1)

cmn 人品 (gaming, informal: randomness, variability, or luck)

wikidata: Q2622192 · wikidata: Q228206 · wikidata: Q228206 · wikidata: Q61722412