"metric ounce" meaning in All languages combined

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          "ref": "1901, The Medical Standard, volume 24, page 306",
          "text": "The new ounces would be all alike, representing 25 Gm. or CC., and would be from one-eighth to one-fifth less than the customary ounces. The metric ounce, 25.0; one fifth less than 1 apoth. ounce, 31.0. The metric ounce, 25.0, one-sixth less than 1 av. ounce, 28.35.",
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          "ref": "1901 September 7, The Accountant, volume 27, number 1396, page 975",
          "text": "It would probably be convenient also to retain the ounce, the metric ounce being defined as equal to 25 grams, or one-twentieth of the metric pound.",
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          "ref": "1904, “The Metric System”, in The Quarterly review, volume 199, page 78",
          "text": "When this is over, there seems no reason why a metric inch of twenty-five millimetres should not serve as well as our inch, a quarter-metre of ten metric inches as well as our foot, and a metric ounce of twenty-five grammes as well as our ounce.",
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        "A metric approximation of the ounce; specifically:",
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          "ref": "1882, An Instruction Book in the Art of Silk Culture, page 83",
          "text": "Thirty grams or a metric ounce (the American ounce is 28 grams)",
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          "ref": "1890, Proceedings of the American Pharmaceutical Association",
          "text": "If we could get the Post Office Department to adopt the metric system, so that whenever any citizen of the United States desires to send a letter he will have to buy postage stamps of one or two cents — whatever it might be — for 30 grams of matter, the metric ounce, that would give us a start.",
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          "ref": "1901, Alfred Emerson, In yellowest jaunia and the way out: or, \"Sound money\", page 23",
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      "code": "fi",
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      "sense": "metric approximation of an ounce",
      "word": "metrinen unssi"
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          "ref": "1901, The Medical Standard, volume 24, page 306",
          "text": "The new ounces would be all alike, representing 25 Gm. or CC., and would be from one-eighth to one-fifth less than the customary ounces. The metric ounce, 25.0; one fifth less than 1 apoth. ounce, 31.0. The metric ounce, 25.0, one-sixth less than 1 av. ounce, 28.35.",
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          "ref": "1901 September 7, The Accountant, volume 27, number 1396, page 975",
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          "type": "quotation"
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          "ref": "1904, “The Metric System”, in The Quarterly review, volume 199, page 78",
          "text": "When this is over, there seems no reason why a metric inch of twenty-five millimetres should not serve as well as our inch, a quarter-metre of ten metric inches as well as our foot, and a metric ounce of twenty-five grammes as well as our ounce.",
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          "text": "If we could get the Post Office Department to adopt the metric system, so that whenever any citizen of the United States desires to send a letter he will have to buy postage stamps of one or two cents — whatever it might be — for 30 grams of matter, the metric ounce, that would give us a start.",
          "type": "quotation"
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          "ref": "1901, Alfred Emerson, In yellowest jaunia and the way out: or, \"Sound money\", page 23",
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