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The system can be traced back to the measuring systems of the Hindus [18]: B-9 and the ancient Egyptians, who subdivided the hekat (about 4.8 litres) into parts of 1 ⁄ 2, 1 ⁄ 4, 1 ⁄ 8, 1 ⁄ 16, 1 ⁄ 32, and 1 ⁄ 64 (1 ro, or mouthful, or about 14.5 ml), [19] and the hin similarly down to 1 ⁄ 32 (1 ro) using hieratic notation, [20] as ...
A simple plastic measuring cup, capable of holding the volume one cup. A measuring cup is a kitchen utensil used primarily to measure the volume of liquid or bulk solid cooking ingredients such as flour and sugar, especially for volumes from about 50 mL (approx. 2 fl oz) upwards.
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 ...
1.032 US dry gal quart: pinte: 1 ⁄ 4 gal 1.1365225 L 1.201 US qt pint: chopine: 1 ⁄ 8 gal 568.26125 mL: 1.201 US pt gill: roquille: 1 ⁄ 32 gal 142.0653125 mL 4.804 US fl oz fluid ounce: once fluide: 1 ⁄ 160 gal 28.4130625 mL 0.9608 US fl oz fluid dram: drachme fluide: 1 ⁄ 8 fl oz 3.5516328125 mL 0.1201 US fl oz cubic yard yard cube or ...
A US liquid gallon contains about 3.7854 kilograms (8.3454 lb) of water at 3.98 °C (39.16 °F), and is about five-sixths of an imperial gallon. There are four quarts in a gallon, two pints in a quart and 16 US fluid ounces in a US pint , making the US fluid ounce 1 / 128 of a US gallon.
In US customary units, most units of volume exist both in a dry and a liquid version, with the same name, but different values: the dry hogshead, dry barrel, dry gallon, dry quart, dry pint, etc. The bushel and the peck are only used for dry goods. Imperial units of volume are the same for both dry and liquid goods. They have a different value ...
The imperial system has a hundredweight, defined as eight stone of 14 lb each, or 112 lb (50.802 345 44 kg), whereas a US hundredweight is 100 lb (45.359 237 kg). In both systems, 20 hundredweights make a ton. In the US, the terms long ton (2240 lb, 1 016.046 9088 kg) and short ton (2000 lb; 907.184 74 kg) are used.
The US Customary system of units makes use of set of dry units of capacity that have a similar set of names [Note 7] to those of liquid capacity, though different volumes: the dry pint having a volume of 33.6 cubic inches (550 ml) against the US fluid pint's volume of 28.875 cubic inches (473 ml) and the imperial pint of 34.68 cubic inches (568 ...