dosage

dosage

See also: Dosage

English

Etymology

From French dosage.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈdəʊsɪd͡ʒ/

• Audio (US)

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Noun

dosage (countable and uncountable, plural dosages)

1. The administration of a medication etc, in a measured amount; dosing.
2. The addition of a small measured amount of a substance to something, e.g. sugar to wine.
3. The measured amount so administered or added; the dose.

Derived terms

• dosage compensation

Translations

medication

Bulgarian: доза (bg) f (doza) Chinese: Mandarin: 劑量／剂量 (zh) (jìliàng) Dutch: dosering (nl) f Esperanto: please add this translation if you can Finnish: annostus (fi) French: dosage (fr) m German: Dosierung (de) f Interlingua: dosage Italian: please add this translation if you can Portuguese: please add this translation if you can Romanian: dozaj (ro) n, dozare (ro) f Russian: please add this translation if you can Spanish: posología (es) f Tibetan: སྨན་ཐུན (sman thun) Turkish: doz (tr), dozaj (tr)

See also

• posology

Anagrams

• dagoes, sea dog, sea-dog, seadog

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French

Etymology

dose +‎ -age

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /do.zaʒ/

• Audio

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Noun

dosage m (plural dosages)

1. dosage (measured amount of a medication)

Derived terms

• liqueur de dosage

Descendants

• → Romanian: dozaj n
• → Turkish: dozaj

Further reading

• “dosage”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

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Interlingua

Noun

dosage (plural dosages)

1. dosage, dose