Look up: uncia

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   uncia
   Latin, meaning: a twelfth, an ounce.
   Found on http://archives.nd.edu/uuu.htm
   
   
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   Uncia
   Uncia is a tin mining town in Oruro department, Bolivia.
   Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/nol.php
   
   
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   uncia
   Origin: L. See Ounce a measure of weight. ... 1. A twelfth part, as of the Roman as; an ounce. ... 2. <mathematics> A numerical coefficient in any particular case of the binomial theorem. ... Source: Websters Dictionary ... (01 Mar 1998) ...
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   Uncia
   `Uncia` can refer to: * Uncia (coin), an ancient Roman bronze coin * Uncia (length), an ancient Roman unit of length * Uncia (mine), a Bolivian tin mine (see Simon Iturri Patino) * `Uncia`, the genus of the Snow Leopard, a large cat native to the mountain ranges of central Asia
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   Uncia
   • (n.) A twelfth part, as of the Roman as; an ounce. • (n.) A numerical coefficient in any particular case of the binomial theorem.
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   uncia
   (from the article `measurement system`) ...in terms of these equivalents, the digit (digitus), or 116 foot, was 18.5 mm (0.73 inch); the inch (uncia or pollicus), or 112 foot, was 24.67 mm ...
   Found on http://www.britannica.com/eb/a-z/u/6
   
   
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   uncia
   (from the article `libra`) ...The abbreviation lb for pound is derived from libra. One-twelfth of the libra, the Roman uncia, is the ancestor of the English ounce....foot, a copper bar, constituted the Roman pound standard and was divided along its length into 12 equal parts, called unciae. Thus, uncia ... ...was struck to a weight of 7...
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   uncia
   a Latin name for the fraction 1/12, subsequently used in many ways to represent a twelfth part. The Romans had no mathematical notation for fractions. When they needed to refer to a fractional part of anything, they would often state its nearest equivalent in unciae.
   Found on http://www.unc.edu/~rowlett/units/dictU.
   
   
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   uncia
   the Roman ounce, equal to about 27.2875 grams of 0.9625 ounce avoirdupois. There were 12 ounces in a Roman pound, and the word uncia means a 12th part; its name gives us the ounce, of course, and also the inch.
   Found on http://www.unc.edu/~rowlett/units/dictU.