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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 ...
Another difference arose when Britain abolished the troy pound (373.241 7216 g) on 1 January 1879, leaving only the troy ounce (31.103 4768 g) and its decimal subdivisions, whereas the troy pound (of 12 troy ounces) and pennyweight are still legal in the United States, although they are no longer widely used.
A dram is 1 ⁄ 16 of an ounce ounce (oz) 1 ⁄ 16: 28.349 523 125 g: An ounce is 1 ⁄ 16 of a pound pound (lb) 1 0.453 592 37 kg: Defined by the Units of Measurement Regulations 1994 (SI 1994/2867) [33] stone (st) 14 6.350 293 18 kg: The plural stone is often used when providing a weight (e.g. "this sack weighs 8 stone"). [34]
The pound or pound-mass is a unit of mass used in both the British imperial and United States customary systems of measurement.Various definitions have been used; the most common today is the international avoirdupois pound, which is legally defined as exactly 0.453 592 37 kilograms, and which is divided into 16 avoirdupois ounces. [1]
1 ⁄ 7000 of a pound Dram/drachm (dr) ≈1.772 g: sixteenth of an ounce (possibly originated as the weight of silver in Ancient Greek coin drachma) Ounce (oz) ≈28.35 g: 1 oz = 16 dr = 437.5 grains Pound (lb) ≈453.6 g: 1 lb = 16 oz = 7000 grains ('lb' is an abbreviation for the Ancient Roman unit libra) Stone (st) 6.35 kg
Thickness of leather is measured in ounces, 1 oz equals 1 ⁄ 64 inch (0.40 mm). [30] Bolts and screws follow the Unified Thread Standard rather than the ISO metric screw thread standard. Knitting needles in the United States are measured according to a non-linear unitless numerical system.
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An imperial fluid ounce is 1 ⁄ 20 of an imperial pint, 1 ⁄ 160 of an imperial gallon or exactly 28.4130625 mL. A US customary fluid ounce is 1 ⁄ 16 of a US liquid pint and 1 ⁄ 128 of a US liquid gallon or exactly 29.5735295625 mL, making it about 4.08% larger than the imperial fluid ounce. A US food labeling fluid ounce is exactly 30 mL.