Mg
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MG, M.G., M-G and variants may refer to:

Business
  • MG Cars (1924–present), a British automobile manufacturer, now part of SAIC
  • Champion Air
    Champion Air
    Champion Air was an airline based in Bloomington, Minnesota, USA. It operated general charter services to sports teams, vacation wholesalers and government agencies. It also offered limited scheduled service...

     (MG) (1995–), an American charter airline with IATA code MG


Education
  • Matematička Gimnazija
    Matematicka gimnazija
    Matematička gimnazija , is a special school for gifted and talented students of mathematics, physics and informatics located in Belgrade, Serbia...

    , a special school, elementary and high school, for gifted in areas of mathematics, physics and ICT


Entertainment
  • Match Game
    Match Game
    Match Game is an American television game show in which contestants attempted to match celebrities' answers to fill-in-the-blank questions...

    (MG) (1962–1969; 1973–1979; 1983–1984; 1990–1991), an American television game show
  • Mechagodzilla
    Mechagodzilla
    is a fictional character from various films in the Godzilla series, introduced in Godzilla vs. Mechagodzilla . He is Godzilla's mechanical doppelgänger and one of the most popular Toho kaiju...

    , a fictional character from various films in the Godzilla series
  • Memphis Group (M.G.), from the band Booker T. & the M.G.'s
    Booker T. & the M.G.'s
    Booker T. & the M.G.'s is an instrumental R&B band that was influential in shaping the sound of southern soul and Memphis soul. Original members of the group were Booker T. Jones , Steve Cropper , Lewie Steinberg , and Al Jackson, Jr....

     fronted by Booker T. Jones
    • The MG's (album)
      The MG's (album)
      The MG's is a 1973 album recorded by The MG's for Stax Records. Both frontman Booker T. Jones and guitarist Steve Cropper were estranged from Stax by 1973. Remaining members Donald "Duck" Dunn and Al Jackson, Jr. recruited Bobby Manuel to replace Cropper and Carson Whitsett to replace Jones...

      , an album recorded by Booker T.'s band
  • Metal Gear (series)
    Metal Gear (series)
    is a series of stealth video games created by Hideo Kojima and developed and published by Konami. The first game, Metal Gear, was released in 1987 for the MSX2. The player takes control of a special forces operative Solid Snake who is assigned to find the eponymous superweapon "Metal Gear", a...

     (MG), a video game series directed by Hideo Kojima
    • Metal Gear
      Metal Gear
      Metal Gear is a series of video games.Metal Gear may also refer to:*Metal Gear , bipedal tanks appearing in the Metal Gear series-Metal Gear video game series:...

      , the first game in the series
  • Meteor Garden
    Meteor Garden
    Meteor Garden is a 2001 Taiwanese drama starring Barbie Hsu, Jerry Yan, Vic Zhou, Vanness Wu and Ken Chu. It is based on Japanese shōjo manga series, , written by Yoko Kamio...

    , a 2001 Taiwanese drama
  • MorgenGrauen
    MorgenGrauen
    MorgenGrauen, abbreviated MG, is a German-language MUD, a text-based online role-playing game, founded in 1992 and opened to the public in 1993. It is noted as popular in the MUD world, described at times as having an average of around 100 players online per day, with some days seeing 220 players...

    , a German-language MUD (text-based online role-playing game)
  • Mother Goose
    Mother Goose
    The familiar figure of Mother Goose is an imaginary author of a collection of fairy tales and nursery rhymes which are often published as Mother Goose Rhymes. As a character, she appears in one "nursery rhyme". A Christmas pantomime called Mother Goose is often performed in the United Kingdom...

    , a character and poem
  • MG (The Perhapanauts), a character in The Perhapanauts comics
  • Meg Griffin
    Meg Griffin
    Meg Griffin is a character from the animated television series Family Guy. She is the eldest child of Lois and Peter and elder sister of Chris and Stewie. Meg is considered as the black sheep of the series due to the lack of attention she receives....

    , a character on Family Guy voiced by Mila Kunis
  • Mystery Girl
    Mystery Girl
    -Core:*Roy Orbison – vocals, backing vocals, acoustic guitar, guitar*Jeff Lynne – guitars on 1 5, acoustic guitar on 4, keyboards on 1 4 5, piano on 1, bass on 1 4 5, backing vocals on 1 4 5 9*Tom Petty – acoustic guitar on 1 5, backing vocals on 1 2 5...

    , a Roy Orbison album
  • Mondo Generator
    Mondo Generator
    Mondo Generator is an American metal/punk hybrid band founded in 1997 by Nick Oliveri. The name of the band originated when Brant Bjork spray-painted the words on the side of Oliveri's Sunn amplifier. Mondo means "world" in Italian...

    , an American rock band


Military
  • MG, a prefix typically used for machine gun
    Machine gun
    A machine gun is a fully automatic mounted or portable firearm, usually designed to fire rounds in quick succession from an ammunition belt or large-capacity magazine, typically at a rate of several hundred rounds per minute....

    s model designations (for example "MG42" and "MG3")
  • Major General
    Major General
    Major general or major-general is a military rank used in many countries. It is derived from the older rank of sergeant major general. A major general is a high-ranking officer, normally subordinate to the rank of lieutenant general and senior to the ranks of brigadier and brigadier general...

    , a military rank used by many countries; the specific "MG" abbreviation is used in the United States
  • Medal for Gallantry
    Medal for Gallantry
    The Medal for Gallantry is a military decoration awarded to personnel of the Australian Defence Force. It recognises acts of gallantry in action in hazardous circumstances. The MG was introduced on 15 January 1991, replacing the Imperial equivalent. It is ranked third in the Gallantry Decorations...

     (MG), an Australian military decoration, introduced in 1991


People
  • Mahatma Gandhi, a popular name for Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
  • Mel Gibson
    Mel Gibson
    Mel Colm-Cille Gerard Gibson, AO is an American actor, film director, producer and screenwriter. Born in Peekskill, New York, Gibson moved with his parents to Sydney, Australia when he was 12 years old and later studied acting at the Australian National Institute of Dramatic Art.After appearing in...

    , an actor
  • Muammar Gaddafi
    Muammar Gaddafi
    Muammar Muhammad Abu Minyar Gaddafi or "September 1942" 20 October 2011), commonly known as Muammar Gaddafi or Colonel Gaddafi, was the official ruler of the Libyan Arab Republic from 1969 to 1977 and then the "Brother Leader" of the Libyan Arab Jamahiriya from 1977 to 2011.He seized power in a...

     or Muammar al-Gaddafi, the ruler of Libya since 1969


Units
  • Milligram (mg), an SI unit of mass, 1/1,000th of a gram (base unit of mass)
  • Megagram (Mg), an SI unit of mass 106 of a gram
  • milligauss
    Gauss (unit)
    The gauss, abbreviated as G, is the cgs unit of measurement of a magnetic field B , named after the German mathematician and physicist Carl Friedrich Gauss. One gauss is defined as one maxwell per square centimeter; it equals 1 tesla...

     (mG), a unit of measurement of a magnetic field, equivalent to 1.0 × 10−7 tesla


Science and medicine
  • Magnesium
    Magnesium
    Magnesium is a chemical element with the symbol Mg, atomic number 12, and common oxidation number +2. It is an alkaline earth metal and the eighth most abundant element in the Earth's crust and ninth in the known universe as a whole...

    , symbol for the chemical element (Mg)


Other uses
  • Motor-generator
    Motor-generator
    A motor-generator is a device for converting electrical power to another form. Motor-generator sets are used to convert frequency, voltage, or phase of power. They may also be used to isolate electrical loads from the electrical power supply line...

     (M-G), a device for converting electrical power to another form
  • Michaelis-Gutmann bodies
    Michaelis-Gutmann bodies
    Michaelis-Gutmann bodies are concentrically layered basophilic inclusions found in the urinary tract. They are 2 to 10 μm in diameter, and are thought to represent remnants of phagosomes mineralized by iron and calcium deposits....

     (M-G bodies), concentrically layered basophilic inclusions in the urinary tract
  • Myasthenia gravis
    Myasthenia gravis
    Myasthenia gravis is an autoimmune neuromuscular disease leading to fluctuating muscle weakness and fatiguability...

     (MG), an autoimmune disease
  • Minas Gerais
    Minas Gerais
    Minas Gerais is one of the 26 states of Brazil, of which it is the second most populous, the third richest, and the fourth largest in area. Minas Gerais is the Brazilian state with the largest number of Presidents of Brazil, the current one, Dilma Rousseff, being one of them. The capital is the...

     (MG), a Brazilian state
  • the mass of an object multiplied by the gravitational acceleration which equals the force due to gravity
  • Madagascar
    Madagascar
    The Republic of Madagascar is an island country located in the Indian Ocean off the southeastern coast of Africa...

     ISO 3166-1 country code
  • .mg
    .mg
    .mg is the Internet country code top-level domain for Madagascar.- Second-level domains :Registrations are taken directly at the second level, or at the third level beneath the following second level names:* .org.mg: Organizations...

    , the Internet country code top-level domain for Madagascar
  • Malagasy language
    Malagasy language
    Malagasy is the national language of Madagascar, a member of the Austronesian family of languages. Most people in Madagascar speak it as a first language as do some people of Malagasy descent elsewhere.-History:...

     (mg), the national language of Madagascar
  • Mongolia
    Mongolia
    Mongolia is a landlocked country in East and Central Asia. It is bordered by Russia to the north and China to the south, east and west. Although Mongolia does not share a border with Kazakhstan, its western-most point is only from Kazakhstan's eastern tip. Ulan Bator, the capital and largest...

     FIPS 10-4 country code
  • Molecular gastronomy
    Molecular gastronomy
    Molecular gastronomy is a subdiscipline of food science that seeks to investigate, explain and make practical use of the physical and chemical transformations of ingredients that occur while cooking, as well as the social, artistic and technical components of culinary and gastronomic phenomena in...

    , the applied use of chemical and physical processes in the preparation of food
  • Main gauche (m.g., French), a term indicating "left hand" in piano music
  • mg (editor)
    Mg (editor)
    mg, originally called MicroGnuEmacs, , is a public-domain text editor that runs on Unix-like operating systems. It is based on MicroEMACS, but intended to more closely resemble GNU Emacs while still maintaining a small memory footprint and fast speed...

    (mg), an Emacs-compatible Unix text editor
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