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Etymology 1
L. uncia, 1/12th part, from unus "one".

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Pronunciation
IPA|/a�ns/
rhymes|a�ns

Noun
ounce, abbreviation oz.

1. An avoirdupois ounce, weighing 1/16 of an avoirdupois pound, or 28.3495 grams.
2. A troy ounce, weighing 1/12 of a troy pound, or 480 grains, or 31.1035 grams.
3. A US fluid ounce, with a volume of 1/16 of a US pint, 1.804 687 cubic inches or 29.573 531 milliliters.
4. A British imperial fluid ounce, with a volume of 1/20 of an imperial pint, 1.733871 cubic inches or 28.413063 milliliters.

Translations
trans-top|28.3495 g
Arabic: Arab|ا��س IPAchar|(�auns) m
Chinese: �� (àngsī)
Dutch: ons#Dutch|ons n (=100 g)
Finnish: unssi
French: once#French|once f
Galician: onza f
German: Unze f
Hungarian: uncia
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Italian: oncia f
Japanese: ��� (���, onsu)
Korean: �� (onseu)
Portuguese: onça f
Russian: �н�и� (úntsija) f
Spanish: onza f
Swedish: uns#Swedish|uns
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Related terms
inch

Etymology 2
Via French once, lonce, by false division (the l was thought to be the article), from Latin lynx, from Gr. (lunx), lynx. Interestingly, the taxon of the snow leopard is a Latinisation using the root of ounce (1).

Noun
ounce

1. the snow leopard (Uncia uncia)

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