avoirdupois

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Insofar as the notion of the American avoirdupois pound has any official meaning, it is by relation to the kilogram, of which, by law, it is 0.45359237.

From The New Yorker • Nov. 15, 2018

They were neck and neck for the first 200 feet, The Post reported, “but then Kennard’s avoirdupois began to tell on his speed, and the one-legged man took the lead.”

From Washington Post • Jun. 20, 2015

Even the obesity rate ballooned to 31.5 percent, putting Michigan among the five fattest states, in the same league of avoirdupois as Alabama and West Virginia.

From Salon • May 12, 2013

Thus, in vocation and avoirdupois, he suggests a being from another planet in the Fox universe.

From Slate • Jan. 13, 2012

The metal is sold by the pound avoirdupois and prices in January, 1912, ranged from 40c. to 50c.

From The Business of Mining A brief non-technical exposition of the principles involved in the profitable operation of mines by Hoskin, Arthur J.