meg
see also: Meg, MEG
Noun

meg (plural megs)

  1. (colloquial) Any unit having the SI prefix mega-.
    (computing) - "My new computer has over 500 megs of RAM." (megabytes)
    (radio) - "What frequency does Radio XYZ broadcast on?" "105.7 meg." (megahertz)
    (heating) - "a 250-meg gas heater" (megajoule)

Meg
Pronunciation Proper noun
  1. A female given name.
    • 1818 John Keats: Meg Merrilies:
      Old Meg was brave as Margaret Queen,
      And tall as Amazon:
      An old red blanket cloak she wore,
      A chip-hat had she on.
    • 1985 E. L. Doctorow, World's Fair, Fawcett Crest 1986, ISBN 0449212378, page 208:
      My mother thought Meg a sweet child, that's what she called her, a sweet child, although she was critical of her name.
      'What kind of name is that,' she said.
      'It's short for Margaret,' I said. 'But everyone calls her Meg.'
      'Well, that's no name for a girl, that's a scullery maid's name. I fault the mother.'
Noun

meg (plural megs)

  1. (colloquial) Megalodon.
    • 2002, Mark Renz, Megalodon: Hunting the Hunter, p. 33:
      The Bone Valley Region of Florida has multiple Miocene nursery sites in which neonate and young Meg teeth are abundant, as well as food sources. Young Megs probably consumed a lot of large fish but because fish vertebrae don't hold up well in the fossil record, it's difficult to get an accurate reading.

MEG
Noun

meg

  1. Abbreviation of magnetoencephalogram#English|magnetoencephalogram.
  2. Abbreviation of magnetoencephalograph.
  3. (uncountable) Abbreviation of magnetoencephalography#English|magnetoencephalography.
  4. (organic compound, uncountable) Abbreviation of monoethylene glycol#English|monoethylene glycol.
Related terms
  • (magnetoencephalo-) EEG



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