ounce

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Etymology 1

From Middle French once < Latin uncia, 1/12th part, from unus "one".

Pronunciation

• IPA: /aʊns/
• Rhymes: -aʊns

Noun

ounce (plural ounces) 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
• ℥

Translations

28.3495 g

Arabic: وقية (ar) (wiqiiya) f., أونس (ar) ('auns) m. Chinese: Mandarin: 盎司 (cmn) (àngsī) Czech: unce (cs) f. Dutch: ons n. (=100 g) Esperanto: unco (eo) Finnish: unssi (fi) French: once (fr) f. Galician: onza f. German: Unze (de) f. Greek: ουγκιά (el) f. (ougkiá)

Hungarian: uncia (hu) Italian: oncia (it) f. Japanese: オンス (ja) (onsu) Korean: 온스 (ko) (onseu) Polish: uncja (pl) f. Portuguese: onça (pt) f. Russian: унция (ru) (úncija) f. Scottish Gaelic: unnsa (gd) m. Spanish: onza (es) f. Swedish: uns (sv) Turkish: ons (tr)

Etymology 2

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

Noun

ounce (plural ounces)

1. The snow leopard (Uncia uncia).

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