avoirdupois

Englisch - Türkisch

Definition von avoirdupois im Englisch Türkisch wörterbuch

tartı usulü

ingiliz ve Amerikan ağırlık jüyesi

ağırlık

{i} İngiliz tartı sistemi

{i} İngiliz ve Amerikan ağırlık ölçü sistemi

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ıngiliz tartı sistemi

Relevante Übersetzungen

avoirdupois unit

tartı birimi

avoirdupois weight

tartı ağırlığı

avoirdupois pound

(16 ounces) 453 gram

avoirdupois weight

İngiliz tartı sistemi

Englisch - Englisch

Definition von avoirdupois im Englisch Englisch wörterbuch

The official system of weights used in UK between 1856 and 1963. It had been the customary system in London since 1300 CE

The official system of weights used in USA between 1866 and 1959

Weight; heaviness

he has a lot of avoirdupois.

Avoirdupois weight

the system of weighing things that uses the standard measures of the ounce, pound, and ton metric system (avoir de pois )

French, avoir, aver or avier, goods in general, and poise = poids (weight) Not the verb, but the noun avoir Properly avoir de poids (goods having weight), goods sold by weight We have the word aver, meaning goods in general, hence also cattle; whence such compounds as aver-corn, aver-penny, aver-silver, aver-land, and so on We have also the noun "having, havings" = possessions There is a common French phrase avoir du poids (to be weight), with which our word avoir dupois has been muddled up "Pared my present havings [property] to bestow My bounties upon you " Shakespeare: Henry VIII, iii 2 "One of your having, and yet cark and care " Muses' Looking Glass Even medicines, as wholesale goods, are bought and sold by avoirdupois weight A-weather The reverse of a-lee "A-weather" is towards the weather, or the side on which the wind strikes "A-lee" is in the lee or shelter, and therefore opposite to the wind side; as helm a-weather

the official system of weights used in UK between 1856 and 1963. It had been the customary system in London since AD 1300

Weight; heaviness; as, a woman of much avoirdupois

Common trade system of weights used in the United States and England Sixteen ounces equals 7,000 grains An avoirdupois pounds equals 14 583 troy ounces or 453 6 grams

\av-ur-duh-POIZ; AV-ur-duh-poiz\, noun: 1 Avoirdupois weight (see below) 2 Weight; heaviness; as, a person of much avoirdupois

Goods sold by weight

excess bodily weight; "she found fatness disgusting in herself as well as in others"

{i} system of weights used in Britain and the United States (used to measure certain goods); body heaviness; excess physical weight

Often referred to as the Imperial System of Weights and Measurement (a) French for "having weight;" (b) A system of weight measurement based on the pound of 16 ounces and the ounce of 16 drams

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

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myriagramme

myriagram

boll

Relevante Übersetzungen

avoirdupois ounce

A unit of weight in the avoirdupois system of units, equal to one sixteenth of a avoirdupois pound

avoirdupois ounces

plural form of avoirdupois ounce

avoirdupois pound

A unit of weight in the avoirdupois system of weights, defined as 0.45359237 kg in most of the English-speaking world since 1959

avoirdupois pounds

plural form of avoirdupois pound

avoirdupois unit

any of the units of the avoirdupois system of weights

avoirdupois weight

system of weights used in Britain and the United States based on the 16-ounce pound (used to measure certain goods)

avoirdupois weight

A system of weights and measures based on a pound containing 16 ounces or 7,000 grains and equal to 453.59 grams

avoirdupois.

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Silbentrennung

av·oir·du·pois

Etymologie

() Old French avoir + de + pois (“good of weight”), compare Modern French poids (“weight”)