2 dictionary results for: dosing
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dose /doʊs/ Pronunciation Key - Show Spelled Pronunciation[dohs] Pronunciation Key - Show IPA Pronunciation noun, verb, dosed, dos·ing.
?noun 1. a quantity of medicine prescribed to be taken at one time.
2. a substance, situation, or quantity of anything analogous to medicine, esp. of something disagreeable: Failing the exam was a hard dose to swallow.
3. an amount of sugar added in the production of champagne.
4. Physics. a. Also called absorbed dose. the quantity of ionizing radiation absorbed by a unit mass of matter, esp. living tissue: measured in gray or rad.
b. exposure dose.
5. Slang. a case of gonorrhea or syphilis
