2. (Troy Weight) The twelfth part of a troy pound.

The troy ounce contains twenty pennyweights, each of twenty-four

grains, or, in all, 480 grains, and is the twelfth part of the troy

pound. The troy ounce is also a weight in apothecaries' weight. [Troy

ounce is sometimes written as one word, troyounce.]

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