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  2. Cup (unit) - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  3. Approximate measures - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  4. Cooking weights and measures - Wikipedia

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    2 ⁠ 2 / 5 ⁠ coffee cups 2 coffee cups ⁠ 1 / 2 ⁠ teacup ⁠ 2 / 5 ⁠ teacup 5 wine glasses 4 wine glasses 3 wine glasses 2 ⁠ 1 / 2 ⁠ wine glasses 1 ⁠ 1 / 4 ⁠ wine glasses ⁠ 4 / 5 ⁠ coffee cup ≈ 284·13 millilitres ≈ 227·3 millilitres ≈ 170·48 millilitres ≈ 142·07 millilitres ≈ 71·03 millilitres ≈ 56·83 ...

  5. Serving size - Wikipedia

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    The United States FDA recommends in their "2015-2020 Dietary Guidelines" that an American adult eating 2,000 calories a day should be consuming 2.5 cups of vegetables, 2 cups of fruit, 6 ounces of grain, 3 cups of dairy, 5.5 ounces of protein, and 27 grams of oils every day.

  6. Measuring cup - Wikipedia

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    A mug that has markings up to 350 ml. Measuring cups usually have capacities from 250 mL (1 metric cup) to 1,000 mL (4 metric cups; about 2·11 US customary pints (1·06 US customary quarts) or 1·76 British imperial pints (0·88 British imperial quart)), though larger sizes are also available for commercial use.

  7. Traditional French units of measurement - Wikipedia

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    A measure equal to a half a demiard. There were different sizes based on the commodity measured: poisson de vin (wine), poisson de eau de vie (brandy), or poisson de lait (milk). [11] demiard: 1 ⁄ 4 ~238 ml ~0.5 pint demi in French means "half": in this case, half a chopine, and – coincidentally – also approximately half a US pint [237 ml ...

  8. Three cups problem - Wikipedia

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    Changing 1 right cup and 1 wrong cup, the situation remains the same. Changing 2 right cups results in a situation with 3 wrong cups, after which the next move restores the original status of 1 wrong cup. Thus, any number of moves results in a situation either with 3 wrongs or with 1 wrong, and never with 0 wrongs.

  9. Gill (unit) - Wikipedia

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    Half of a gill is a jack, or an eighth of a pint. [4] But in northern England, a quarter pint could also be called a jack or a noggin, rather than a gill, and in some areas a half pint could be called a gill, particularly for beer and milk. [5] [6] [7]