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TONNE |
Weight measure |
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OUNCE |
Weight measure |
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CARAT |
Gem weight measure |
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RADAR |
Gem weight measure |
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KILOGRAMS |
Body weight measure |
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TROY |
Olden weight measure |
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WEY |
A certain measure of weight. |
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TON |
A measure of weight or quantity. |
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SEAM |
A denomination of weight or measure. |
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AIR POISE |
An instrument to measure the weight of air. |
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WEIGH |
A certain quantity estimated by weight; an English measure
of weight. See Wey. |
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HECTOGRAM |
A measure of weight, containing a hundred grams, or
about 3.527 ounces avoirdupois. |
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ASSIZE |
To fix the weight, measure, or price of, by an ordinance or
regulation of authority. |
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QUINTAL |
A metric measure of weight, being 100,000 grams, or 100
kilograms, equal to 220.46 pounds avoirdupois. |
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TANK |
A small Indian dry measure, averaging 240 grains in weight;
also, a Bombay weight of 72 grains, for pearls. |
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FUNGIBLES |
Movable goods which may be valued by weight or
measure, in contradistinction from those which must be judged of
individually. |
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DECA- |
A prefix, from Gr. de`ka, signifying ten; specifically (Metric
System), a prefix signifying the weight or measure that is ten times
the principal unit. |
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TALE |
A number told or counted off; a reckoning by count; an
enumeration; a count, in distinction from measure or weight; a number
reckoned or stated. |
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METRONOME |
An instrument consisting of a short pendulum with a
sliding weight. It is set in motion by clockwork, and serves to measure
time in music. |
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CHALDRON |
An English dry measure, being, at London, 36 bushels
heaped up, or its equivalent weight, and more than twice as much at
Newcastle. Now used exclusively for coal and coke. |
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MILLIGRAMME |
A measure of weight, in the metric system, being the
thousandth part of a gram, equal to the weight of a cubic millimeter of
water, or .01543 of a grain avoirdupois. |
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STANDARD |
...for the
measure of quantity, extent, value, or quality; esp., the original
specimen weight or measure sanctioned by government, as the standard
... |
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KILOGRAMME |
A measure of weight, being a thousand grams, equal to
2.2046 pounds avoirdupois (15,432.34 grains). It is equal to the weight
of a cubic decime... |
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EXCEED |
...osed
limit or measure of; to outgo; to surpass; -- used both in a good and a
bad sense; as, one man exceeds another in bulk, stature, weight, po... |
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INTENSITY |
The magnitude of a distributed force, as pressure,
stress, weight, etc., per unit of surface, or of volume, as the case
may be; as, the measure... |