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

Organizations

* MG Cars, an automotive marque of the now defunct MG Car Company * MG Motor, a present-day car manufacturing company *

MG JW Automobile MG JW Automobile Pakistan Pvt Ltd operating as MG Motors Pakistan is a Pakistani automobile manufacturer and joint venture between JW-SEZ Group and SAIC motors. History MG JW Automobile Pakistan is owned by JW Auto Park, which in turn owned ...

, a Pakistani automobile manufacturer * Champion Air (IATA code) *

Matematička gimnazija Mathematical Grammar School ( sr, Математичка гимназија Београд, Matematička gimnazija Beograd, abbr. "MG" or "MGB"), is a special school for gifted and talented students of mathematics, physics and informatics lo ...

, 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 Magilla Gorilla is a fictional gorilla and the star of ''The Magilla Gorilla Show'' by Hanna-Barbera that aired from 1963 to 1965. Character description Magilla Gorilla (voiced by Allan Melvin) is a fun-loving yet trouble-prone anthropomorphic go ...

, a cartoon character

Music

* ''

Main gauche The parrying dagger is a category of small handheld weapons from the European late Middle Ages and early Renaissance. These weapons were used as off-hand weapons in conjunction with a single-handed sword such as a rapier. As the name implies ...

'', "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 * M:G, real name Maribel Gonzalez, dance music singer

Military

* Machine gun (MG-), prefix for model designations, for example, "MG42" * Major general, a military rank *

Medal for Gallantry The Medal for Gallantry (MG) 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 e ...

, a military decoration

Places

* Madagascar (ISO 3166-1 country code MG) **

.mg .mg is the Internet country code top-level domain (ccTLD A country code top-level domain (ccTLD) is an Internet top-level domain generally used or reserved for a country, sovereign state, or dependent territory identified with a country code ...

, the Internet country code top-level domain for Madagascar * Minas Gerais, Brazil * Mongolia (FIPS 10-4 country code MG)

Science and technology

, the Internet country code top-level domain for Madagascar * mg (text 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 A smart grid is an electrical grid which includes a variety of operation and energy measures including: *Advanced metering infrastructure (of which smart meters are a generic name for any utility side device even if it is more capable e.g. a f ...

that can function both connected to and isolanded from the main grid. * Force of gravity, product of mass (''m'') by acceleration of gravity (''g'') *

MagicGate MagicGate (MG) is a copy-protection technology introduced by Sony in 1999 as part of the Secure Digital Music Initiative (SDMI). It works by encrypting the content on the device and using MagicGate chips in both the storage device and the reader ...

and OpenMG, encryption technologies of Sony

Biology and medicine

* Michaelis-Gutmann bodies, concentrically layered basophilic inclusions in the urinary tract * Monoglyceride, or monoacylglycerol *

Myasthenia gravis Myasthenia gravis (MG) is a long-term neuromuscular junction disease that leads to varying degrees of skeletal muscle weakness. The most commonly affected muscles are those of the eyes, face, and swallowing. It can result in double vision, dro ...

, a neuromuscular disease * '' Mycoplasma gallisepticum'', a disease affecting chickens and other birds * '' Mycoplasma genitalium'', a sexually transmitted bacterium

Units of measurement

* Milligram (mg), equal to 10⁻³ grams *

Megagram The tonne ( or ; symbol: t) is a unit of mass equal to 1000 kilograms. It is a non-SI unit accepted for use with SI. It is also referred to as a metric ton to distinguish it from the non-metric units of the short ton (United States c ...

(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