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avoirdupois
(encz) | avoirdupois,druh váhové soustavy Zdeněk Brož |
avoirdupois
(encz) | avoirdupois,nadváha n: Zdeněk Brož |
Avoirdupois
(gcide) | Avoirdupois \Av`oir*du*pois"\ ([a^]v`[~e]r*d[-u]*poiz"), n. & a.
[OE. aver de peis, goods of weight, where peis is fr. OF.
peis weight, F. poids, L. pensum. See Aver, n., and
Poise, n.]
1. Goods sold by weight. [Obs.]
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2. Avoirdupois weight.
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3. Weight; heaviness; as, a woman of much avoirdupois.
[Colloq.]
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Avoirdupois weight, a system of weights by which coarser
commodities are weighed, such as hay, grain, butter,
sugar, tea.
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Note: The standard Avoirdupois pound of the United States is
equivalent to the weight of 27.7015 cubic inches of
distilled water at 62[deg] Fahrenheit, the barometer
being at 30 inches, and the water weighed in the air
with brass weights. In this system of weights 16 drams
make 1 ounce, 16 ounces 1 pound, 25 pounds 1 quarter, 4
quarters 1 hundred weight, and 20 hundred weight 1 ton.
The above pound contains 7,000 grains, or 453.54 grams,
so that 1 pound avoirdupois is equivalent to 1 31-144
pounds troy. (See Troy weight.) Formerly, a hundred
weight was reckoned at 112 pounds, the ton being 2,240
pounds (sometimes called a long ton).
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avoirdupois
(wn) | avoirdupois
n 1: a system of weights based on the 16-ounce pound (or 7,000
grains) [syn: avoirdupois, avoirdupois weight]
2: excess bodily weight; "she disliked fatness in herself as
well as in others" [syn: fatness, fat, blubber,
avoirdupois] [ant: leanness, spareness, thinness] |
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avoirdupois
(encz) | avoirdupois,druh váhové soustavy Zdeněk Brožavoirdupois,nadváha n: Zdeněk Brož |
Avoirdupois weight
(gcide) | Avoirdupois \Av`oir*du*pois"\ ([a^]v`[~e]r*d[-u]*poiz"), n. & a.
[OE. aver de peis, goods of weight, where peis is fr. OF.
peis weight, F. poids, L. pensum. See Aver, n., and
Poise, n.]
1. Goods sold by weight. [Obs.]
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2. Avoirdupois weight.
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3. Weight; heaviness; as, a woman of much avoirdupois.
[Colloq.]
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Avoirdupois weight, a system of weights by which coarser
commodities are weighed, such as hay, grain, butter,
sugar, tea.
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Note: The standard Avoirdupois pound of the United States is
equivalent to the weight of 27.7015 cubic inches of
distilled water at 62[deg] Fahrenheit, the barometer
being at 30 inches, and the water weighed in the air
with brass weights. In this system of weights 16 drams
make 1 ounce, 16 ounces 1 pound, 25 pounds 1 quarter, 4
quarters 1 hundred weight, and 20 hundred weight 1 ton.
The above pound contains 7,000 grains, or 453.54 grams,
so that 1 pound avoirdupois is equivalent to 1 31-144
pounds troy. (See Troy weight.) Formerly, a hundred
weight was reckoned at 112 pounds, the ton being 2,240
pounds (sometimes called a long ton).
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pound avoirdupois
(gcide) | Pound \Pound\, n.; pl. Pounds, collectively Pound or
Pounds. [AS. pund, fr. L. pondo, akin to pondus a weight,
pendere to weigh. See Pendant.]
1. A certain specified measure of mass or weight; especially,
a legal standard consisting of an established number of
ounces.
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Note: The pound in general use in the United States and in
England is the pound avoirdupois, which is divided
into sixteen ounces, and contains 7,000 grains (0.453
kilogram). The pound troy is divided into twelve
ounces, and contains 5,760 grains. 144 pounds
avoirdupois are equal to 175 pounds troy weight. See
Avoirdupois, and Troy.
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2. A British denomination of money of account, equivalent to
twenty shillings sterling, and equal in value to about
$4.86 in 1900 and $1.50 in 2002. The modern pound coin was
introduced in 1983. Formerly there was a gold sovereign of
the same value.
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Note: The pound sterling was in Saxon times, about a. d. 671,
a pound troy of silver, and a shilling was its
twentieth part; consequently the latter was three times
as large as it is at present. --Peacham.
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avoirdupois
(wn) | avoirdupois
n 1: a system of weights based on the 16-ounce pound (or 7,000
grains) [syn: avoirdupois, avoirdupois weight]
2: excess bodily weight; "she disliked fatness in herself as
well as in others" [syn: fatness, fat, blubber,
avoirdupois] [ant: leanness, spareness, thinness] |
avoirdupois unit
(wn) | avoirdupois unit
n 1: any of the units of the avoirdupois system of weights |
avoirdupois weight
(wn) | avoirdupois weight
n 1: a system of weights based on the 16-ounce pound (or 7,000
grains) [syn: avoirdupois, avoirdupois weight] |
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