apothecaries' unit

Questions about apothecaries' unit

What does apothecaries' unit mean?

apothecaries' unit means "any weight unit used in pharmacy; an ounce is equal to 480 grains and a pound is equal to 12 ounces".

What is another word for apothecaries' unit?

Close synonyms include apothecaries' weight. 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' unit a common word?

apothecaries' unit 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.