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Definition: Fluid Ounce |
Fluid OunceNoun1. A British imperial unit of capacity or volume (liquid or dry) equal to 8 fluid drams or 28.416 cubic centimeters (1.734 cubic inches). 2. A United States unit of capacity or volume equal to 1.804 cubic inches. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
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A fluid ounce is a unit of volume in both the Imperial system of units and the U.S. customary units system. However, the two measures are not quite the same:
- The U.S. fluid ounce is (1/128) gallon, about 1.805 cubic inches or 29.573531 ml. This volume of water weighs about 1.04 ounces.
- The Imperial fluid ounce is (1/160) gallon or 8 fluid drams, about 1.734 cubic inches or 28.413063 ml. This volume of water weighs exactly 1 ounce under certain temperature and pressure conditions.
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| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
| fl.oz. | English | Fluid ounce | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
Synonym: Fluid OunceSynonym: fluidounce (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Fluid Ounce |
| English words defined with "fluid ounce": drachm ♦ fluid drachm, fluid dram, fluidram. (references) |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
fluid ounce | 37 |
conversion fluid ounce | 6 |
fluid ounce sixth | 5 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-d-e-f-i-l-n-o-u-u" | |
-2 letters: flounced, nucleoid, uncoiled, undocile, unfoiled. | |
-3 letters: confide, flounce, funicle, include, nuclide, uncloud, unoiled. | |
-4 letters: cineol, cloned, codein, codlin, coifed, coiled, coined, docile, enfold, enolic, fecund, foiled, foined, fondle, fondue, fouled, fucoid, fundic, indole, induce, infold, leucin, louden, nodule, nuclei, olefin, uncoil, unfold. | |
-5 letters: cline, clone, cloud, clued, coden, coled, colin, coned, coude, could, dolce. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)46 6C 75 69 64      4F 75 6E 63 65 |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000110 01101100 01110101 01101001 01100100 00100000 01001111 01110101 01101110 01100011 01100101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)F l u i d   O u n c e |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0046 006C 0075 0069 0064      004F 0075 006E 0063 0065 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)407887757024987806971 |

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