milligram
a unit of mass or weight equal to one thousandth of a gram, and equivalent to 0.0154 grain. Abbreviation: mg
Origin of milligram
1- Also especially British, mil·li·gramme .
Words Nearby milligram
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How to use milligram in a sentence
Other potential culprits include the loss of as much as 150 milligrams per hour of calcium through sweating, and chronic inflammation and elevated stress hormones due to overtraining, which might interfere with bone repair.
Increasing the amount of the enzyme from 1 milligram per gram of PET to 3 milligrams made it even more efficient — breaking down about 90 percent of the plastic.
New recycling technologies could keep more plastic out of landfills | Maria Temming | April 29, 2021 | Science News For StudentsPrevious experiments have involved objects with masses of hundreds of milligrams or more.
A tiny gold ball is the smallest object to have its gravity measured | Emily Conover | March 10, 2021 | Science News“If they were ten-milligram tablets, she would have taken ten to twenty of them,” Ballard quoted Francisco.
The Strange and Mysterious Death of Mrs. Jerry Lee Lewis | Richard Ben Cramer | January 11, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTOne milligram of californium-252 will spontaneously produce over 10⁹ neutrons per second.
The Atomic Fingerprint | Bernard Keisch
If after a second trial the loss is the same, or only increased by a milligram, the determination is finished.
A Textbook of Assaying: For the Use of Those Connected with Mines. | Cornelius Beringer and John Jacob BeringerThey lose slightly in weight when in use, but the loss is uniform, and averages half a milligram per month when in daily use.
A Textbook of Assaying: For the Use of Those Connected with Mines. | Cornelius Beringer and John Jacob BeringerThey are always weighed on the balance with a counterpoise, but no attempt is made to weigh them closer than to 0.5 milligram.
Respiration Calorimeters for Studying the Respiratory Exchange and Energy Transformations of Man | Francis Gano BenedictThe masses commonly used are the milligram, gram and kilogram.
Physics | Willis Eugene Tower
British Dictionary definitions for milligram
milligramme
/ (ˈmɪlɪˌɡræm) /
one thousandth of a gram: Symbol: mg
Origin of milligram
1Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
Scientific definitions for milligram
[ mĭl′ĭ-grăm′ ]
A unit of mass or weight in the metric system equal to 0.001 gram. See Table at measurement.
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