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noun

a unit of weight equal to 437.5 grains or ¹/₁₆ pound (28.349 grams) avoirdupois.

a unit of 480 grains, ¹/₁₂ pound (31.103 grams) troy or apothecaries' weight.

a fluid ounce.

a small quantity or portion.

Origin:
1350–1400; Middle English unce < Middle French < Latin uncia twelfth part, inch, ounce, derivative of unus one

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an extraordinary or unusual thing, person, or event; an exceptional example or instance.

a gadget; dingus; thingumbob.

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It is hard to picture a wee monkeylike adult creature weighing no more than an ounce.

She would have preferred the baby starved to death rather than give her a single ounce of formula.

From the extra gallon, they annually made a single ounce of cheese, which they stored in a great cellar.

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It is hard to picture a wee monkeylike adult creature weighing no more than an ounce.

She would have preferred the baby starved to death rather than give her a single ounce of formula.

From the extra gallon, they annually made a single ounce of cheese, which they stored in a great cellar.

Sponges have to filter about a ton of water for each ounce of food they ingest.

He has been able to sell it for about one dollar per ounce.

But every ounce of breeding plumes represented six dead adults, and each slain pair left behind three to five starving nestlings.

All squeezed into something that weighs about an ounce and can be clenched in your fist.

These noodles have more protein, ounce for ounce, than steak.

Anyone with an ounce of common sense who doesn't have an axe to grind or an agenda to promote can see this much.

Economist, stop pretending to be a worldly magazine if you cannot display an ounce of worldliness describing events at home.

But ounce for ounce, this insect is considered the.

There is more protein in an ounce of soy than there is in an ounce of dead animal flesh, otherwise known as meat.

Fahrenheit and freeze-dries it until what's left is a speck of powder weighing less than one one-hundredth of an ounce.

His recipes call for as little as a quarter ounce of this or a half-ounce.

Generally buying large containers of shampoo will cost less per ounce.

The result measures a mere quarter of a cubic inch and weighs less than an ounce.

The drive allegedly produces a fraction of an ounce of thrust.

For a short period, it seemed that any singer with an ounce of patriotism considered his or her music to be chimurenga music.

No politician with an ounce of self-preservation would touch this with a ten foot pole, except to shut it down.

If you're not keeping count, that's a saving of one whole ounce.

Just make sure you save an ounce of room for the luscious profiteroles.

Richie adds the water in successive streams spiraling outward from the center of the grounds, an ounce at a time.

The fuel the piece consumes only amounts to an ounce or so of fuel per attendee at the event, they note.

With the birds putting on weight at a rate of a fifth of an ounce a day, that's a long and worrying adolescence.

The total weight of the sample couldn't have been more than half an ounce.

Each tube housed a charge containing an ounce of powder.

It took every ounce of pack-leader in me to get the dogs to stop climbing on everyone and jumping all over the place.

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noun

snow leopard.

Origin:
1300–50; Middle English unce lynx < Anglo-French; Old French once, variant of lonce (erroneously taken as l'once the ounce) < Vulgar Latin *luncea, derivative of Latin lync- (stem of lynx) lynx

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ounce¹ (aʊns)

—n
1.	oz a unit of weight equal to one sixteenth of a pound (avoirdupois); 1 ounce is equal to 437.5 grains or 28.349 grams
2.	a unit of weight equal to one twelfth of a Troy or Apothecaries' pound; 1 ounce is equal to 480 grains or 31.103 grams
3.	short for fluid ounce
4.	a small portion or amount

[C14: from Old French unce, from Latin uncia a twelfth; from ūnus one]

ounce² (aʊns)

—n
	another name for snow leopard

[C18: from Old French once, by mistaken division of lonce as if l'once, from Latin lynx]

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Word Origin & History

ounce

"unit of weight," early 14c., from O.Fr. unce (12c.), from L. uncia "one-twelfth part" (of a pound, foot, etc.), from L. unus "one" (see one). The L. word had been adopted in O.E. as ynce (see inch). It was one-twelfth of a pound in the Troy system

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of weights, but one-sixteenth in avoirdupois. Abbreviation oz. is from It. onza. Also used in M.E. as a measure of time (7.5 seconds) and length (about 3 inches).

ounce

"wildcat," c.1300, from O.Fr. once, from lonce, with l- mistaken as definite article, from V.L. *luncea, from L. lyncea "lynx-like," from lynx (see lynx). Originally the common lynx, later extended to other wildcats, now mainly used of the mountain-panther or snow leopard of Asia.

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ounce (ouns)
n.
Abbr. oz, oz.

A unit of weight in the U.S. Customary System, an avoirdupois unit equal to 437.5 grains or 28.35 grams.
A unit of apothecary weight equal to 480 grains or 31.10 grams.
A fluid ounce.

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