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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • abbreviation milligal

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Examples

  • Gravity will be measured with a resolution of 0.01 mGal.

    unknown title 2011

  • Gravity will be measured with a resolution of 0.01 mGal.

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  • Darnley Bay Resources Limited was formed in 1993 to explore for and develop base metal deposits related to the 50 km x 80 km, 132 mGal Darnley Bay gravity anomaly near Paulatuk, Northwest Territories, Canada.

    The Earth Times Online Newspaper 2010

  • Darnley Bay Resources Limited was formed in 1993 to explore for and develop base metal deposits related to the 50 km x 80 km, 132 mGal Darnley Bay gravity anomaly near Paulatuk,

    Marketwire - Breaking News Releases 2010

  • Mission objectives: to determine gravity-field anomalies with an accuracy of 1 mGal (where 1 mGal = 10-5 ms-2).

    unknown title 2009

  • The data collected by GOCE will yield accuracy of 1 to 2 cm in the geoid altitude and 1 mGal for the detection of gravity-field anomalies (mountains, for instance, usually cause local gravitational variations ranging from tens of milligals to approximately one hundred).

    unknown title 2009

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