"dosage" meaning in English

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Noun

IPA: /ˈdəʊsɪd͡ʒ/ Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vininn126-dosage.wav Forms: dosages [plural]
Etymology: From French dosage. Etymology templates: {{uder|en|fr|dosage}} French dosage Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} dosage (countable and uncountable, plural dosages)
  1. The administration of a medication etc, in a measured amount; dosing. Tags: countable, uncountable Translations (medication): доза (doza) [feminine] (Bulgarian), 劑量 /剂量 (jìliàng) (Chinese Mandarin), dosering [feminine] (Dutch), annostus (Finnish), dosage [masculine] (French), Dosierung [feminine] (German), δοσολογία (dosología) [feminine] (Greek), dosis (Indonesian), dosage (Interlingua), dosej (Malay), dawka [feminine] (Polish), dozaj [neuter] (Romanian), dozare [feminine] (Romanian), до́за (dóza) [feminine] (Russian), дозиро́вка (doziróvka) [feminine] (Russian), posología [feminine] (Spanish), སྨན་ཐུན (sman thun) (Tibetan), doz (Turkish), dozaj (Turkish)
    Sense id: en-dosage-en-noun-JR14G4Ub Disambiguation of 'medication': 79 6 14
  2. The addition of a small measured amount of a substance to something, e.g. sugar to wine. Tags: countable, uncountable
    Sense id: en-dosage-en-noun-TP9hMr-G
  3. The measured amount so administered or added (the dose), combined with the frequency of administration and the time period for which it is taken. Tags: countable, uncountable
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The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: dosage compensation, macrodosage, megadosage, microdosage, overdosage, underdosage Related terms: posology

Inflected forms

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