1) Coin of ancient Rome 2) Roman ounce 3) Unit of length
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Latin, meaning: a twelfth, an ounce.
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[mine] Uncia is a tin mine in western Bolivia. It was served by a branch railway line from Oruro. It was one of the mines owned by Simón Iturri Patiño. ...
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[unit] An uncia (plural: unciae) is an ancient Roman unit of length equal to 1/12 of a Roman foot. One uncia, which roughly corresponds to an inch, is 0.97 inches or 24.6 millimeters. There are twelve unciae in one pes, another Roman measure of length. The words inch (1/12 of a foot) and ounce (originally 1/12 of a pound and still 1/12 of a...
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• (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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(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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(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 ...
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Type: Term Pronunciation: ŭn′sē-ă Definitions: 1. An ounce.
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a bronze coin of ancient Rome, the 12th part of an as. · (in prescriptions) an ounce of weight or volume.
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