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avoirdupois n. 常衡,体重,重量 常衡,体重,重量 avoirdupois n 1: a system of weights based on the 16- ounce pound ( or 7, 000 grains) [ synonym: { avoirdupois}, { avoirdupois weight}] 2: excess bodily weight; " she disliked fatness in herself as well as in others" [ synonym: { fatness}, { fat}, { blubber}, { avoirdupois}] [ ant: { leanness}, { spareness}, { thinness}] Avoirdupois \ Av` oir* du* pois"\ ([ a^] v`[~ e] r* d[- u]* poiz"), n. & a. [ OE. aver de peis, goods of weight, where peis is fr. OF. peis weight, F. poids, L. pensum. See { Aver}, n., and { Poise}, n.] 1. Goods sold by weight. [ Obs.] [ 1913 Webster] 2. Avoirdupois weight. [ 1913 Webster] 3. Weight; heaviness; as, a woman of much avoirdupois. [ Colloq.] [ 1913 Webster] { Avoirdupois weight}, a system of weights by which coarser commodities are weighed, such as hay, grain, butter, sugar, tea. [ 1913 Webster] Note: The standard Avoirdupois pound of the United States is equivalent to the weight of 27. 7015 cubic inches of distilled water at 62[ deg] Fahrenheit, the barometer being at 30 inches, and the water weighed in the air with brass weights. In this system of weights 16 drams make 1 ounce, 16 ounces 1 pound, 25 pounds 1 quarter, 4 quarters 1 hundred weight, and 20 hundred weight 1 ton. The above pound contains 7, 000 grains, or 453. 54 grams, so that 1 pound avoirdupois is equivalent to 1 31- 144 pounds troy. ( See { Troy weight}.) Formerly, a hundred weight was reckoned at 112 pounds, the ton being 2, 240 pounds ( sometimes called a long ton). [ 1913 Webster] 23 Moby Thesaurus words for " avoirdupois": beef, beefiness, deadweight, fatness, gravity, gross weight, heaviness, heft, heftiness, liveweight, neat weight, net, net weight, overbalance, overweight, ponderability, ponderosity, ponderousness, poundage, tonnage, underweight, weight, weightiness
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