ounce

Etymology 1
From, , from , from , ultimately from. .

Noun

 * 1) An avoirdupois ounce, weighing $1/undefined$ of an avoirdupois pound, or 28.349523125 grams.
 * 2) A troy ounce, weighing $1/undefined$ of a troy pound, or 480 grains, or 31.1034768 grams.
 * 3) A US fluid ounce, with a volume of $1/undefined$ of a US pint, 1.804688 cubic inches or 29.5735295625  millilitres.
 * 4) A British imperial fluid ounce, with a volume of $1/undefined$ of an imperial pint, 1.733871 cubic inches or 28.4130625 millilitres.
 * 5)  Any small amount, a little bit.

Synonyms

 * oz.; ℥,
 * oz., fl. oz.
 * see also Thesaurus:modicum

Translations

 * Albanian: ons
 * Arabic: أُوقِيَّة, وِقِيَّة, أَوْنْس, أونصة, أونسة
 * Aramaic:
 * Classical Syriac: ܐܘܢܩܝܐ
 * Armenian: ,
 * Bengali:
 * Bulgarian: унция
 * Catalan: unça
 * Chinese:
 * Cantonese: 安士
 * Mandarin:
 * Czech:
 * Esperanto:
 * Faroese: unsa
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Friulian: once
 * Galician: onza
 * Ge'ez: ወቄት
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Hebrew:
 * Hindi:
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic:
 * Indonesian:
 * Irish: unsa, uinge
 * Old Irish: ungae
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:
 * Khmer: អោនស៍
 * Korean: 온스
 * Latin: uncia
 * Latvian: unce
 * Lithuanian: uncija
 * Malay: auns
 * Maltese: uqija
 * Maori: aunihi
 * Middle English: ounce
 * Mongolian: унци
 * Norman: onche
 * Occitan: onça
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Romansch: onza, untscha, unza, uonscha
 * Russian:
 * Scottish Gaelic: unnsa
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: у̑нца
 * Roman:
 * Sicilian: oncia, uncia
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili: wakia
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog: onsa
 * Thai: ออนซ์
 * Turkish:
 * Uzbek: untsiya
 * Venetian: onsa, onza, onzha, onça
 * Welsh:
 * Zulu: iawunsi

Etymology 2
From, from , by false division (the l was thought to be the article), from , ultimately from. .

Noun

 * 1)  A large wild feline, such as a lynx or cougar.
 * , a particularly aggressive cougar or jaguarundi in Mexican folklore.
 * , a particularly aggressive cougar or jaguarundi in Mexican folklore.
 * , a particularly aggressive cougar or jaguarundi in Mexican folklore.
 * , a particularly aggressive cougar or jaguarundi in Mexican folklore.

Translations

 * French:
 * Spanish:

Etymology
From, from , , from. .

Noun

 * 1) An  unit with much variation, but generally equivalent to 1/12 or 1/16 of a pound
 * 2)  A shekel ancient measure of weight
 * 3)  A minuscule or insignificant amount or quantity.
 * 4)  An eight-minute unit for measuring time.
 * 5)  A three-inch unit for measuring length.
 * 1)  A three-inch unit for measuring length.

Etymology
From. .

Noun

 * 1) an avoirdupois ounce

Etymology
From. .

Noun

 * 1) an avoirdupois ounce