ounce

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   A unit of weight equal to about 28 grams, or one sixteenth of a pound.

   The recipe calls for four ounces of butter.

2. 2
   noun

   A very small amount of something.

   He didn't show an ounce of regret.

From Middle English ounce, unce, from Middle French once, from Latin uncia (“Roman ounce, various similar units”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *óynos (“one”). Doublet of a, one, inch, uncia, onça, onza, oka, ouguiya, and awqiyyah.

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