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bradford system

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.74 in modern English

Syllables
brad-ford sys-tem
IPA
26
Scrabble Score
14
Letters
3
Syllables
11
Unique Chars

Meaning

name

A traditional means of assessing the fineness of wool, by estimating how many 560-yard (512 m) hanks of single-strand yarn could be made by a good spinner from a pound (0.45 kg) of "top" (cleaned combed wool with the fibres all parallel).

Inflected Forms

the Bradford system (canonical)

Questions

What does bradford system mean?
A traditional means of assessing the fineness of wool, by estimating how many 560-yard (512 m) hanks of single-strand yarn could be made by a good spinner from a pound (0.45 kg) of "top" (cleaned combed wool with the fibres all parallel).

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