mg
milligram; milligrams.
mg
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abbreviation
Music.
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Symbol, Chemistry.
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machine gun.
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major general.
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military government.
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myasthenia gravis.
MG
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mg
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mg
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Mg
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Scientific
Etymology
Origin of Mg
From French main gauche
Example Sentences
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A 12-oz can of Celsius or Alani Nu contains 200 mg—a little less than two Red Bulls or five Diet Cokes, and about 50-80 mg more than each of my lattes.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 4, 2026
Regular brewed, non-specialty, caffeinated coffee usually contains 9.4-20.6 mg of caffeine per fluid ounce.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 22, 2026
Patients currently treated privately with a 2.4 mg semaglutide injection once weekly can be transitioned straight to semaglutide 25 mg tablets once daily.
From BBC ● Jun. 11, 2026
One-third of participants on 12 mg doses saw their weight fall into a healthy weight range, while two-thirds fell below the threshold for obesity, Eli Lilly said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 8, 2026
Arf, af, oof, eef, rrmm— The arf mg il beasto has rolled over onto his back and is letting Jake rub his pancia—pancho—what you call it?—stomaco?
From "The Unfinished Angel" by Sharon Creech
This clock-inspired design involves placing two nanorods made of Mg at a certain modifiable angle, resembling the hour and minute hands of a clock.
From Science Daily ● Jan. 30, 2024
However, in 2015, independent research that looked at all available atmospheric measurements estimated the atmospheric mercury reservoir was about 4,000 Mg -- nearly 7 times larger than the natural condition estimated in this study.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 1, 2023
Little Mg Htan Naing was healthy when he entered into this chaotic world on May 16, looking like his mother.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 5, 2021
Calculate the average mass of a Mg atom.
From Textbooks ● Feb. 14, 2019
How Mg** ions might be used to bind negatively charged phosphate groups in the center of a compound helix.
From "Double Helix" by James D. Watson
In 1995, while still in law school, he started his first firm, MG Capital, which acquired and ran distressed manufacturing companies.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 11, 2026
Chinese brands, including BYD, MG and Chery, are gaining ground in Europe fast and now make up around nine percent of the region's overall sales, according to consulting firm Dataforce.
From Barron's ● Jun. 7, 2026
This became even more marked when MG – a classic British brand – became a boutique badge for cars made in China.
From BBC ● Aug. 12, 2025
Meanwhile, Chinese-owned marques - such as MG, BYD, Polestar and XPeng - now make up a combined 10% of the market, according to the Norwegian Road Federation.
From BBC ● Jan. 12, 2025
I was changing out of my school uniform when this dream of a silver MG cruised down Kingfisher Meadows.
From "Black Swan Green" by David Mitchell
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