troy ounce

Questions about troy ounce

What does troy ounce mean?

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

What is another word for troy ounce?

Close synonyms include ounce, apothecaries' 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 troy ounce a common word?

troy 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.