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Type Words
Synonyms oz.
Type of avoirdupois unit
Type Words
Synonyms panthera uncia, snow leopard
Type of big cat, cat
Type Words
Synonyms apothecaries' ounce, troy ounce
Type of troy unit, apothecaries' unit, apothecaries' weight

Examples of ounce

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Spot gold fetched $736 an ounce and West Texas crude oil traded at $82 a barrel.
From the upi.com
Muscles on this tanned, lanky guy are not masked by an ounce of superfluous fat.
From the sfgate.com
Ken Hagen of Tacoma took second with a 20-pound, 8-ounce salmon, earning $1,000.
From the thenewstribune.com
Continue to drink an 8-ounce glass every 20 minutes during the exercise session.
From the stltoday.com
The price has quadrupled since then from $409 per ounce to more than $1,700 now.
From the telegraph.co.uk
I thought it would be worth spending $4 for a 3-ounce pour to see if I liked it.
From the stltoday.com
Gold is fetching a record $1,500-an-ounce barrier, underpinned by a weak dollar.
From the guardian.co.uk
Kemp Littlefield won a tournament last weekend with a 3 pound, 14 ounce Pompano.
From the news-journalonline.com
Additionally, patrons are welcome to bring two sealed 20-ounce bottles of water.
From the courier-journal.com
More examples
  • A unit of apothecary weight equal to 480 grains or one twelfth of a pound
  • Snow leopard: large feline of upland central Asia having long thick whitish fur
  • An ounce (abbreviated oz; apothecary symbol: u2125) is a unit of mass used in some systems of measurement.
  • The snow leopard (Uncia uncia) is a moderately large cat native to the mountain ranges of Central Asia. The classification of this species has been subject to change and its exact taxonomic position will not be resolved until further studies are conducted.
  • An avoirdupois ounce, weighing 1/16 of an avoirdupois pound, or 28.3495 grams; A troy ounce, weighing 1/12 of a troy pound, or 480 grains, or 31.1035 grams; A US fluid ounce, with a volume of 1/16 of a US pint, 1.804 687 cubic inches or 29. ...
  • Troy ounces of a fineness of 999.9 parts per 1,000 parts, equal to 31.1034 grams
  • A unit of weight. In the precious metals industry, an ounce means a troy ounce equal to 31.1035 grams.
  • All ounces in this report are troy ounces.
  • A traditional unit of weight. The avoirdupois ounce, the unit commonly used in the United States, is 1/16 pound, or about 28 grams.