pennyweight
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pennyweight
n. weight of a penny, 1/20 of an ounce

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Pennyweight
A pennyweight (abbreviated dwt) is a unit of mass that is equal to 24 grains, of a troy ounce, of a troy pound, approximately 0.054857 avoirdupois ounce  and exactly 1.55517384 grammes.

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pennyweight

Noun
1. a unit of apothecary weight equal to 24 grains
(hypernym) troy unit
(part-holonym) ounce, troy ounce, apothecaries' ounce
(part-meronym) grain


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Pennyweight
(n.)
A troy weight containing twenty-four grains, or the twentieth part of an ounce; as, a pennyweight of gold or of arsenic. It was anciently the weight of a silver penny, whence the name.
  

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pennyweight
pennyweight /'peniweit/
  • danh từ
    • ((viết tắt) dwt) Penni (đơn vị trọng lượng giá 1 gam rưỡi)

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