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AVOIRDUPOIS UNIT
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Any of the units of the avoirdupois system of weights
Classified under:
Nouns denoting quantities and units of measure
Hypernyms ("avoirdupois unit" is a kind of...):
mass unit (a unit of measurement for mass)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "avoirdupois unit"):
grain (1/7000 pound; equals a troy grain or 64.799 milligrams)
dram (1/16 ounce or 1.771 grams)
ounce; oz. (a unit of weight equal to one sixteenth of a pound or 16 drams or 28.349 grams)
lb; pound (16 ounces avoirdupois)
half pound (8 ounces avoirdupois)
quarter pound (4 ounces avoirdupois)
stone (an avoirdupois unit used to measure the weight of a human body; equal to 14 pounds)
quarter (a quarter of a hundredweight (25 pounds))
cwt; hundredweight; long hundredweight (a British unit of weight equivalent to 112 pounds)
cental; centner; cwt; hundredweight; quintal; short hundredweight (a United States unit of weight equivalent to 100 pounds)
gross ton; long ton; ton (a British unit of weight equivalent to 2240 pounds)
net ton; short ton; ton (a United States unit of weight equivalent to 2000 pounds)
kiloton (one thousand tons)
megaton (one million tons)
Holonyms ("avoirdupois unit" is a part of...):
British Imperial System; British system; English system (a system of weights and measures based on the foot and pound and second and pint)
avoirdupois; avoirdupois weight (a system of weights based on the 16-ounce pound (or 7,000 grains))
