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  2. Traditional French units of measurement - Wikipedia

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    demi in French means "half": in this case, half a chopine, and – coincidentally – also approximately half a US pint [237 ml]. chopine: 1 ⁄ 2 ~476.1 ml ~1 pint ~0.84 pint pinte: 1 ~952.1 ml ~2.01 pint ~1.68 pint Although etymologically related to the English unit pint, the French pint is about twice as

  3. French units of measurement - Wikipedia

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    During the early part of the twentieth century, the French introduced their own units of power – the poncelet, which was defined as being the power required to raise a mass of 100 kg against standard gravity with a velocity of 1 m/s, giving a value of 980.665 W. [16] [17] However, many other European countries defined their units of power ...

  4. Litre - Wikipedia

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    The litre (Commonwealth spelling) or liter (American spelling) (SI symbols L and l, [1] other symbol used: ℓ) is a metric unit of volume. It is equal to 1 cubic decimetre (dm 3 ), 1000 cubic centimetres (cm 3 ) or 0.001 cubic metres (m 3 ).

  5. Cooking weights and measures - Wikipedia

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    A US fluid ounce is ⁠ 1 / 16 ⁠ of a US pint (about 1·04 UK fluid ounces or 29.6 mL); a UK fluid ounce is ⁠ 1 / 20 ⁠ of a UK pint (about 0·96 US fluid ounce or 28.4 mL). On a larger scale, perhaps for institutional cookery, a UK gallon is 8 UK pints (160 UK fluid ounces; about 1·2 US gallons or 4.546 litres), whereas the US gallon is ...

  6. Volume - Wikipedia

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    The statute standardized weight, length and volume as well as introduced the peny, ounce, pound, gallon and bushel. [4]: 73–74 In 1618, the London Pharmacopoeia (medicine compound catalog) adopted the Roman gallon [8] or congius [9] as a basic unit of volume and gave a conversion table to the apothecaries' units of weight. [8]

  7. Wine bottle - Wikipedia

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    The chart below [6] lists the sizes of various wine bottles in multiples relating to a standard bottle of wine, which is 0.75 litres (0.20 US gal; 0.16 imp gal) (six 125 mL servings). The "wineglassful"—an official unit of the apothecaries' system of weights —is much smaller at 2.5 imp fl oz (71 mL ).

  8. File:French.pdf - Wikipedia

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    Original file (1,239 × 1,752 pixels, file size: 1.05 MB, MIME type: application/pdf, 226 pages) This is a file from the Wikimedia Commons . Information from its description page there is shown below.

  9. List of metric units - Wikipedia

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    Metric units are units based on the metre, gram or second and decimal (power of ten) multiples or sub-multiples of these. According to Schadow and McDonald, [1] metric units, in general, are those units "defined 'in the spirit' of the metric system, that emerged in late 18th century France and was rapidly adopted by scientists and engineers.