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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 ...
In the 18th century, the table-spoon became an unofficial unit of the apothecaries' system of measures, equal to 4 drams ( 1 / 2 fl oz, 14.8 ml). It was more commonly known by the Latin name cochleare majus (abbreviated cochl. maj.) or, in apothecaries' notation, f℥ss or f℥ß (fluid ℥, i.e. ounce, semis, one-half). [13] [14] [15]
[1] [2] The size of teaspoons ranges from about 2.5 to 7.3mL (about 0·088 to 0·257 imperial fluid ounce or 0·085 to 0·247 US fluid ounce). For dosing of medicine and, in places where metric units are used, for cooking purposes, a teaspoonful is defined as 5mL (about 0·18 imperial fluid ounce or 0·17 US fluid ounce), and standard measuring ...
The cup is a cooking measure of volume, commonly associated with cooking and serving sizes.In the US, it is traditionally equal to one-half US pint (236.6 ml). Because actual drinking cups may differ greatly from the size of this unit, standard measuring cups may be used, with a metric cup commonly being rounded up to 240 millilitres (legal cup), but 250 ml is also used depending on the ...
In the apothecaries' system, which was widely used in the United States until the middle of the 20th century, [15] the dram is the mass of 1 ⁄ 96 pounds apothecaries (lb ap), or 1 ⁄ 8 ounces apothecaries (oz ap or ℥) [5]: C-7 (the pound apothecaries and ounce apothecaries are equal to the troy pound (lb t), and troy ounce (oz t ...
1 / 2 UK salt spoon is an amount of space that can accommodate 15 British imperial minims ( 1 / 4 British imperial fluid drachm or 1 / 32 British imperial fluid ounce; about 14·41 US customary minims (0·24 US customary fluid dram or 0·03 US customary fluid ounce) or 0·89 millilitres) of liquid.
gyllot (about equal to 1/2 gill) noggin (1/4 pint) [8] nipperkin (measure for liquor, containing no more than 1/2 pint) tumblerful (10 fl oz or 2 gills or 2 teacupsful) apothecaries' approximate measures [9] teacupful = about 4 fl oz; wineglassful = about 2 fl oz; tablespoonful = about 1/2 fl oz; dessertspoonful = about 2 fl dr; teaspoonful ...
As a unit of Apothecary measure, the dessert-spoon was an unofficial but widely used unit of fluid measure equal to two fluid drams, or 1 / 4 fluid ounce. [4] However, even when approximated, its use was discouraged: "Inasmuch as spoons vary greatly in capacity, and from their form are unfit for use in the dosage of medicine, it is ...