dosage

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dosage

  • /ˈdəʊsɪd͡ʒ/

Where it comes from

From French dosage.

noun dosages

  1. countable, uncountable The administration of a medication etc, in a measured amount; dosing.
  2. countable, uncountable The addition of a small measured amount of a substance to something, e.g. sugar to wine.
  3. countable, uncountable The measured amount so administered or added (the dose), combined with the frequency of administration and the time period for which it is taken. Why did he give you only a single 500 mg dose? The correct dosage of this antibiotic is one 500 mg tablet twice a day for 10 days.

Thesaurus

Closest in meaning: dose, medication, dosing, drug, pharmaceutical, immunoassay, thumb, fix, intake, mixture, mix, blend, blending, metering, packaging, shot

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Every language

noun medication

Españolposología
中文劑量 /剂量 jìliàng
Portuguêsdosagem
Françaisdosage
DeutschDosierung
Ελληνικάδοσολογία dosología
Românădozaj, dozare
Русскийдо́за dóza, дозиро́вка doziróvka

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"dosage." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/dosage. Accessed 6 Nov. 2026.

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@misc{dosage_2026,
  title = {dosage},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/dosage},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}