mg

«mg» in Mova's school dictionary: short for milligram, a very small unit of mass: there are… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

abbreviation (mg)

meaning for a pupil

1) mg is short for milligram, a very small unit of mass: there are 1,000 mg in 1 gram. tree →

2) MG (capitals) is also a British car brand. tree →

sense in the lessons

In maths and science lessons, mg appears in measurement and conversion: 1 g = 1,000 mg, 1 kg = 1,000,000 mg. On food and medicine labels, mg tells you how much of a vitamin, salt or medicine is in a dose; safety: only adults should give medicine, and never take more than the label says. Phrases: «500 mg tablet», «mg per day», «convert g to mg».

examples

• This vitamin tablet has 200 mg of vitamin C. tree →
• 1 gram is the same as 1,000 mg. tree →
• Convert 3 g into milligrams: 3,000 mg. tree →
• The label says 5 mg of salt per biscuit. tree →
• A grain of rice weighs about 20 mg. tree →
• The doctor said to take one 250 mg tablet twice a day. tree →

note

Write it in small letters with no full stop: «mg»; the plural is also «mg» (5 mg, not 5 mgs). Read it as «milligrams». Maths: to change mg into grams, divide by 1,000; grams to mg, multiply by 1,000. Do not confuse mg (milligram) with ml (millilitre, volume) or kg (kilogram).

In the corpora

• In the UK, drinks with more than 150 mg of caffeine per litre must carry the warning «High caffeine content.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «mg» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.