AVOIRDUPOIS UNIT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does avoirdupois unit mean? 

• AVOIRDUPOIS UNIT (noun)
  The noun AVOIRDUPOIS UNIT has 1 sense:

1. any of the units of the avoirdupois system of weights

  Familiarity information: AVOIRDUPOIS UNIT used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• AVOIRDUPOIS UNIT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Any of the units of the avoirdupois system of weights

Classified under:

Nouns denoting quantities and units of measure

Hypernyms ("avoirdupois unit" is a kind of...):

mass unit (a unit of measurement for mass)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "avoirdupois unit"):

grain (1/7000 pound; equals a troy grain or 64.799 milligrams)

dram (1/16 ounce or 1.771 grams)

ounce; oz. (a unit of weight equal to one sixteenth of a pound or 16 drams or 28.349 grams)

lb; pound (16 ounces avoirdupois)

half pound (8 ounces avoirdupois)

quarter pound (4 ounces avoirdupois)

stone (an avoirdupois unit used to measure the weight of a human body; equal to 14 pounds)

quarter (a quarter of a hundredweight (25 pounds))

cwt; hundredweight; long hundredweight (a British unit of weight equivalent to 112 pounds)

cental; centner; cwt; hundredweight; quintal; short hundredweight (a United States unit of weight equivalent to 100 pounds)

gross ton; long ton; ton (a British unit of weight equivalent to 2240 pounds)

net ton; short ton; ton (a United States unit of weight equivalent to 2000 pounds)

kiloton (one thousand tons)

megaton (one million tons)

Holonyms ("avoirdupois unit" is a part of...):

British Imperial System; British system; English system (a system of weights and measures based on the foot and pound and second and pint)

avoirdupois; avoirdupois weight (a system of weights based on the 16-ounce pound (or 7,000 grains))