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the unit small enough to flavor your coffee or end your enemies.
means A metric unit of mass equal to one-thousandth of a gram, used wherever tiny quantities matter.
from A French-built compound from the metric system: the prefix 'milli-' comes from Latin 'mille,' meaning 'thousand,' bolted onto 'gram,' which traveled through French 'gramme' from Late Latin 'gramma' (a small weight) and ultimately Greek 'gramma,' originally 'something written' and later a small unit of measure. So a milligram is, quite literally, a 'thousandth of a little written weight.'
- definition
- One thousandth of a single gram
- deadly dose
- Botulinum toxin kills at micrograms, not milligrams
- caffeine
- Your morning cup holds about 95 milligrams
- weighing trick
- A grain of sand averages roughly one milligram
- drug labels
- Most pills are measured in milligrams