angular pascalprecht.translate ng stands for

Question

If I peep into the source module I can see

angular.module('pascalprecht.translate', ['ng']).

ng stands for what ? afaik there is no module named ng

Answer 1

Actually there is a ng module - it is the default AngularJS module that holds most of the services, directives etc.: https://github.com/angular/angular.js/blob/master/src/AngularPublic.js#L143

In this context ng stands for aNGular.

I'm surprised to see the explicit reference to the ng module as normally it is not needed - reference to the default module is added if not present.