metric ounce
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.54 in modern English
17
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
2
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A metric approximation of the ounce; specifically:
noun
A metric approximation of the ounce; specifically:
Example Sentences
- "The new ounces would be all alike, representing 25 Gm. or CC., and would be from one-eighth to one-fifth less than the customary ounces. The metric ounce, 25.0; one fifth less than 1 apoth. ounce, 31.0. The metric ounce, 25.0, one-sixth less than 1 av. ounce, 28.35."
- "It would probably be convenient also to retain the ounce, the metric ounce being defined as equal to 25 grams, or one-twentieth of the metric pound."
- "When this is over, there seems no reason why a metric inch of twenty-five millimetres should not serve as well as our inch, a quarter-metre of ten metric inches as well as our foot, and a metric ounce of twenty-five grammes as well as our ounce."
- "Thirty grams or a metric ounce (the American ounce is 28 grams)"
- "If we could get the Post Office Department to adopt the metric system, so that whenever any citizen of the United States desires to send a letter he will have to buy postage stamps of one or two cents — whatever it might be — for 30 grams of matter, the metric ounce, that would give us a start."
- "One 16-ounce pound of silver coin is legally equal to one 30-gram metric ounce of gold coin […]"