Ounce

Noun
abbreviation oz.


 * 1) An avoirdupois ounce, weighing 1/16 of an avoirdupois pound, or 28.3495 grams.
 * 2) A troy ounce, weighing 1/12 of a troy pound, or 480 grains, or 31.1035 grams.
 * 3) A US fluid ounce, with a volume of 1/16 of a US pint, 1.804 687 cubic inches or 29.573 531 milliliters.
 * 4) A British imperial fluid ounce, with a volume of 1/20 of an imperial pint, 1.733871 cubic inches or 28.413063 milliliters.
 * 5) A little bit.
 * He didn't feel even an ounce of regret for his actions.

Related terms

 * inch
 * ℥

Noun

 * 1) The snow leopard (Uncia uncia).

Thesaurus
ace, atom, bit, crumb, dab, dole, dot, dram, dribble, driblet, drop, dwarf, farthing, fleck, flyspeck, fragment, gobbet, grain, granule, groat, hair, handful, iota, jot, little, little bit, minim, minimum, minutiae, mite, modicum, molecule, mote, nutshell, particle, pebble, pinch, pittance, point, scruple, shred, smidgen, smitch, speck, spoonful, spot, thimbleful, tiny bit, tittle, trifling amount, trivia, whit

Etymology 1
uncia:, 1/12th part, from unus "one".

Etymology 2
Via French once, lonce, by false division (the l was thought to be the article), from Latin lynx, from λύγξ:. Interestingly, the taxon of the snow leopard is a Latinisation using the root of ounce (1).

Noun

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 * Mandarin:
 * Czech:
 * Dutch: ons (=100 g)
 * Esperanto:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Galician: onza
 * German:
 * Greek: (ougkiá)


 * Hungarian:
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: オンス (おんす, onsu)
 * Korean: 온스 (onseu)
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian: унция (úntsija)
 * Spanish:
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