"troy grain" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: troy grains [plural]
Etymology: Morphologically, from Troyes, town in Northern France + grain, unit of mass. Head templates: {{en-noun}} troy grain (plural troy grains)
  1. A unit of mass, equal to 1/24 of a pennyweight or 1/480 of a troy ounce, fixed at 0.064 798 91 grams under the metric system. Synonyms: grain Hypernyms: grain Coordinate_terms: troy ounce, troy pound
    Sense id: en-troy_grain-en-noun-vhUMGviz Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries

Inflected forms

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