MG explained

MG, Mg, or mg and variants may refer to:

Arts

Entertainment

• MG, a character in The Perhapanauts comics
• Magilla Gorilla, a cartoon character
• Match Game, a television game show

Music

• Main gauche, "left hand" in piano playing
• MG (album), a 2015 album by Martin Gore
• The M.G.'s, from the band Booker T. & the M.G.'s
• The MG's (album), an album by the M.G.'s
• M:G, real name Maribel Gonzalez, dance music singer
• MG Select, a house duo music production including George Jackson

Military

• Machine gun (MG-), prefix for model designations, for example, "MG42"
• Major general, a military rank
• Medal for Gallantry, a military decoration

Organizations

• MG Cars, an automotive marque of the now defunct MG Car Company
• MG Motor, a present-day car manufacturing company
  • JSW MG Motor India, Indian subsidiary of MG Motor
  • MG Motors Pakistan, Pakistani subsidiary of MG Motor
• Champion Air (IATA code)
• Matematička gimnazija, a school in Belgrade
• Monte Generoso railway

Places

• Madagascar (ISO 3166-1 country code MG)
  • .mg, the Internet country code top-level domain for Madagascar
• Minas Gerais, Brazil
• Mongolia (FIPS 10-4 country code MG)

Science and technology

• .mg, the Internet country code top-level domain for Madagascar
• Force of gravity, product of mass (m) by acceleration of gravity (g)
• mg (text editor), a text editing program
• MagicGate and OpenMG, encryption technologies of Sony
• Magnesium, a chemical element with symbol Mg
• Manual Gates, a type of level crossing used in the United Kingdom
• Microgrid, a local architecture for power grid within the concept of Smart Grid that can function both connected to and isolanded from the main grid.
• Motor-generator, a device for converting electrical power to another form

Biology and medicine

• Michaelis-Gutmann bodies, concentrically layered basophilic inclusions in the urinary tract
• Monoglyceride, or monoacylglycerol
• Myasthenia gravis, a neuromuscular disease
• Mycoplasma gallisepticum, a disease affecting chickens and other birds
• Mycoplasma genitalium, a sexually transmitted bacterium
• Marker gene, a gene which can be used to find taxonomic lineages, or a gene used to find if a DNA sequence has been inserted into an organism

Units of measurement

• Milligram (mg), equal to 10 gram
• Megagauss (MG), equal to 100 teslas
• Megagram (Mg), equal to 10 grams, commonly known as tonne
• Milligauss (mG), equal to 10 tesla

Other uses

• Mg (magazine), an American business monthly
• Malagasy language
• Matt Groening
• Outlaw motorcycle club (motorcycle gang)

See also

• • GM (disambiguation)
• ΜG (Mu-G), microgravity
• Μg (mu-G), microgram
• UG (disambiguation) for some uses of μG/ΜG (MU-G)