EGA

EGA

1. (computer graphics) Initialism of enhanced graphics adapter, an obsolete computer display standard between CGA and VGA, offering sixteen colours on screen from a palette of sixty-four.
   • 2004 September 2, Emily Morganti, quoting Matthew Chapman, “Peasant’s Quest”, in adventuregamers.com‎, archived from the original on 23 September 2010:

     Later, when we played King's Quest 2, I remember being legitimately terrified while inside Dracula's castle. Like, I had nightmares in 16 color EGA.

2. (military, US) Initialism of Eagle, Globe, and Anchor.
3. (algebraic geometry) Initialism of Éléments de géométrie algébrique.

• -age, AGE, G. E. A., age