ouncenoun
uk/aʊns/us/aʊns/C1 [ C ] written abbreviation oz a unit of weight equal to approximately 28 grams:
There are 16 ounces in one pound.
a twelve-oz pack of bacon
C2 [ S ] informal a very small amount:
She can eat as much as she wants and she never puts on an ounce (= her weight does not increase).
If he has an ounce of common sense, he'll realize that this project is bound to fail.
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- Measure out eight ounces of flour.
- The recipe needs three and a half ounces of soft brown sugar - that's about 100 grams.
- Daniel weighed a healthy eight pounds and ten ounces when he was born.
- Our best Beluga caviar costs $105 for one ounce.
- The salesman showed me an amazing little music player weighing only a few ounces.
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Measurements of weight & mass
- atomic mass unit
- BMI
- body mass index
- centigram
- ct
- cwt
- dead weight
- gram
- grammage
- gramme
- kilo
- kt
- mg
- milligram
- oz
- stone
- ton
- tonnage
- tonne
- weigh
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