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avoirdupois
[ av-er-duh-poiz ]
avoirdupois
/ 藢忙vw蓱藧dju藧藞pw蓱藧; 藢忙v蓹d蓹藞p蓴瑟z /
noun
- a system of weights used in many English-speaking countries. It is based on the pound, which contains 16 ounces or 7000 grains. 100 pounds (US) or 112 pounds (Brit) is equal to 1 hundredweight and 20 hundredweights equals 1 ton Abbreviationavdpavoir
亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins
Origin of avoirdupois1
亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins
Origin of avoirdupois1
Example Sentences
Significantly, the zoo indicated that his increases in avoirdupois do not stem from any sedentary life of lolling about the den, sampling sweet potato, bamboo and biscuits.
By contrast, their descendants today fret about advancing avoirdupois, a real estate bubble and the high cost of space-age diagnostic scans.
Insofar as the notion of the American avoirdupois pound has any official meaning, it is by relation to the kilogram, of which, by law, it is 0.45359237.
McCormick was a member of the Jolly Fat Men鈥檚 Club, a fraternal group that celebrated avoirdupois.
In recent decades a number of institutions have taken up the challenge of bringing before the public works whose sheer avoirdupois makes them unsuitable even for museums and galleries.
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