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Princeton's WordNet

  1. ounce, troy ounce, apothecaries' ouncenoun

    a unit of apothecary weight equal to 480 grains or one twelfth of a pound

  2. ounce, oz.noun

    a unit of weight equal to one sixteenth of a pound or 16 drams or 28.349 grams

  3. snow leopard, ounce, Panthera uncianoun

    large feline of upland central Asia having long thick whitish fur

GCIDE

  1. Ouncenoun

    A unit of mass or weight, the sixteenth part of a pound avoirdupois, and containing 28.35 grams or 437

  2. Ouncenoun

    (Troy Weight) The twelfth part of a troy pound; one troy ounce weighs 31.103486 grams, 8 drams, or 480 grains.

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. Ouncenoun

    A name of weight of different value in different denominations of weight. In troy weight, an ounce is twenty penny-weight; a penny-weight, twenty-four grains.

    Etymology: once, Fr. uncia, Latin.

    The blood he hath lost,
    Which I dare vouch is more than that he hath
    By many an ounce, he dropt it for his country. William Shakespeare.

    A sponge dry weigheth one ounce twenty-six grains; the same sponge being wet, weigheth fourteen ounces six drams and three quarters. Francis Bacon.

  2. Ouncenoun

    A lynx; a panther.

    Etymology: once, Fr. uncia, Latin.

    The ounce,
    The libbard, and the tiger, as the mole
    Rising, the crumbled earth above them threw
    In hillocks. John Milton, Par. Lost, b. vii.

Wikipedia

  1. Ounce

    The ounce () is any of several different units of mass, weight or volume and is derived almost unchanged from the uncia, an Ancient Roman unit of measurement. The avoirdupois ounce (exactly 28.349523125 g) is 1⁄16 avoirdupois pound; this is the United States customary and British imperial ounce. It is primarily used in the United States to measure packaged foods and food portions, postal items, areal density of fabric and paper, boxing gloves, and so on, but it is sometimes also used elsewhere in the Anglosphere. Although the avoirdupois ounce is the mass measure used for most purposes, the 'troy ounce' of exactly 31.1034768 g is used instead for the mass of precious metals such as gold, silver, platinum, palladium, rhodium, etc.

ChatGPT

  1. ounce

    An ounce is a unit of weight used in the British and the US customary systems of measurement. It is equal to approximately 28.35 grams. It can also refer to a unit for measuring volume for liquid substances, often known as a fluid ounce.

Wikidata

  1. Ounce

    The ounce is a unit of mass with several definitions, the most commonly used of which is equal to approximately 28 grams. The ounce is used in a number of different systems, including those of mass that form part of the United States customary, and imperial, systems. The size of an ounce varies between systems. The most commonly used ounces today are the international avoirdupois ounce and the international troy ounce.

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary

  1. Ounce

    owns, n. the twelfth part of a pound troy=480 grains: 116 of a pound avoirdupois=437½ troy grains. [O. Fr. unce—L. uncia, the twelfth part.]

  2. Ounce

    owns, n. a carnivorous animal of the cat kind, found in Asia, allied to the leopard—(obs.) Once. [Fr. once, prob. Pers. yúz, a panther.]

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of ounce in Chaldean Numerology is: 8

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of ounce in Pythagorean Numerology is: 4

Examples of ounce in a Sentence

  1. Charles Cascarilla:

    What our product does is it actually squares the circle of the contradictions of the gold and commodity market, if you come to us and you buy one ounce of gold, you send $1,500 of Paxos tokens and we give you one ounce. That ounce is actual legal title to an ounce of gold of a bar in a vault in London.

  2. Rusty Hardin:

    Deshaun Watson did not commit any crimes and is not guilty of any offenses. Now that the criminal investigations have been completed, we are happy to move forward with the civil case depositions, we will vigorously defend those cases with every ounce we have.

  3. Matthew Turner:

    The platinum market is just too small. China has $3.7 trillion of foreign exchange reserves. To keep 1 percent by value in platinum, at $1,000 an ounce, would need 37 million ounces of platinum, which is six years' mine supply, to get 0.1 percent, you'd only need to buy two-thirds of a year's mine supply, but why would you want to hold 0.1 percent of your reserves in platinum? What use would that be to anyone?

  4. California Democratic consultant Robb Korinke:

    If I've got an orange and a lime, and you tell me, I'm going to squeeze every ounce of juice out of this lime and then just give the orange a kind of a nudge and hope that less than half the juice comes out -- that's kind of what they're looking at, because there's twice as many Democrats as Republicans in California. Even if you put all the independents, the third parties and so forth together with the Republicans, you would barely edge out the Democratic registration.

  5. Otero County Sheriff Benny House:

    It was the perfect storm for this family. They started off the trek with two 20-ounce bottles of water. When we got there, there was no water left in the bottles.

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