MG facts for kids

MG, Mg, or mg and variants may mean:

Organizations

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

Arts and entertainment

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

Music

• Main gauche, "left hand" in piano playing
• MG (Martin Gore album)
• The M.G.'s, from the band Booker T. & the M.G.'s
• The MG's (album), an album by the M.G.'s
• 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

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
• mg (editor), a text editing program
• Magnesium, a chemical element with symbol Mg
• Motor-generator, a device for converting electrical power to another form
• 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.

Biology and medicine

• Michaelis-Gutmann bodies, concentrically layered basophilic inclusions in the urinary tract
• Monoglyceride, or monoacylglycerol
• Myasthenia gravis, a neuromuscular disease
• Mycoplasma genitalium, a sexually transmitted bacterium

Units of measurement

• Milligram (mg), equal to 10⁻³ grams
• Megagram (Mg), equal to 10⁶ grams
• Milligauss (mG), equal to 1.0 × 10⁻⁷ Teslas
• Megagauss (MG), equal to 100 Teslas

Other uses

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