milligram

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

Estimated from word frequency; not an official CEFR classification.

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Borrowed from French milligramme, equivalent to milli- + gram.

1 Milligram = 0.015 grain. — Practical Mechanics for Boys, James Slough Zerbe
"We have found iron--easily obtained and in unthinkable quantity--not in fractions of milligrams, but in millions upon unmeasured millions of tons! — Triplanetary, E. E. (Edward Elmer) Smith
"These bullets are more lightly charged--they are to protect myself--and the one ten-thousandth of a milligram in the end of each will blow you into bits! — Astounding Stories, June, 1931, Various

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