OUNCE meaning: Unit of weight or volume

We found 52 dictionaries that define the word ounce:

General (28 matching dictionaries)

ounce: Merriam-Webster.com
ounce, ounce: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
ounce, ounce: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
ounce: Collins English Dictionary
ounce: Vocabulary.com
Ounce, ounce: Wordnik
ounce: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
ounce: Wiktionary
ounce: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
ounce: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
ounce: Infoplease Dictionary
ounce: Dictionary.com
ounce (1), ounce (2): Online Etymology Dictionary
ounce: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
Ounce (disambiguation), Ounce (roman coin), Ounce: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
Ounce: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
ounce: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
ounce: Rhymezone
ounce: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
ounce: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
ounce: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
ounce: Free Dictionary
ounce: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
ounce: Mnemonic Dictionary
ounce: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
ounce: Dictionary/thesaurus

Art (3 matching dictionaries)

ounce: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology
Epicurus.com Spanish Glossary (No longer online)
Shakespeare Glossary (No longer online)

Business (3 matching dictionaries)

Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
Ounce: Legal dictionary
BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)

Ounce (zoology), ounce: Encyclopedia

Medicine (7 matching dictionaries)

Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
Ounce: MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary
online medical dictionary (No longer online)
GASTROLAB Digestive Dictionary (No longer online)
ounce: Dictionary of Cancer Terms
ounce: Medical dictionary
Ounce: Drug Medical Dictionary

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)

Encyclopedia of Graphic Symbols (No longer online)
ounce: Idioms

Science (4 matching dictionaries)

Ounce: Eric Weisstein's World of Physics
Ounce: Material Safety Data Sheets HyperGlossary
ounce: MATH SPOKEN HERE!
How Many? A Dictionary of Units of Measurement (No longer online)

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)

ounce: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
Ounce: Dublin Slang and Phrasebook

Tech (2 matching dictionaries)

Book Binding (No longer online)
AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (

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▸ noun:  An avoirdupois ounce, weighing ¹⁄₁₆ of an avoirdupois pound, or 28.349523125 grams.
▸ noun:  A troy ounce, weighing ¹⁄₁₂ of a troy pound, or 480 grains, or 31.1034768 grams.
▸ noun:  A US fluid ounce, with a volume of ¹⁄₁₆ of a US pint, 1.804688 cubic inches or 29.5735295625 millilitres.
▸ noun:  A British imperial fluid ounce, with a volume of ¹⁄₂₀ of an imperial pint, 1.733871 cubic inches or 28.4130625 millilitres.
▸ noun:  (figurative) Any small amount, a little bit.
▸ noun:  (archaic) A large wild feline, such as a lynx or cougar.
▸ noun:  Synonym of snow leopard, Panthera uncia.
▸ noun:  (cryptozoology) Synonym of onza, a particularly aggressive cougar or jaguarundi in Mexican folklore.

Types:

fluid ounce, tablespoon, teaspoon, pint, quart, gallon, pound, gram, ton, tonne, more...

Phrases:

fluid ounce, troy ounce, avoirdupois ounce, apothecaries ounce, apothecaries' ounce, more...

Adjectives:

last, half, single, fine, additional, extra, standard, worth, fluid, quarter, full

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