apothecaries' ounce

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   a unit of apothecary weight equal to 480 grains or one twelfth of a troy pound

   Synonymsouncetroy ounce

   Broaderapothecaries' unittroy unit

   Part oftroy pound

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Questions about apothecaries' ounce

What does apothecaries' ounce mean?

apothecaries' ounce means "a unit of apothecary weight equal to 480 grains or one twelfth of a troy pound".

What is another word for apothecaries' ounce?

Close synonyms include ounce, troy ounce. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is apothecaries' ounce a common word?

apothecaries' ounce is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.