Dozen vs. Kilogram

Dozennoun

A set of twelve.

Dozennoun

A large, unspecified number of, comfortably estimated in small multiples of twelve, thus generally implied to be significantly more than ten or twelve, but less than perhaps one or two hundred; many.

Dozennoun

(metallurgy) An old English measure of ore containing 12 hundredweight.

Dozennoun

A collection of twelve objects; a tale or set of twelve; with or without of before the substantive which follows.

Dozennoun

An indefinite small number.

Dozennoun

the cardinal number that is the sum of eleven and one

Dozenadjective

denoting a quantity consisting of 12 items or units

Dozen

A dozen (commonly abbreviated doz or dz) is a grouping of twelve. The dozen may be one of the earliest primitive integer groupings, perhaps because there are approximately a dozen cycles of the Moon, or months, in a cycle of the Sun, or year.

Kilogramnoun

In the International System of Units, the base unit of mass; conceived of as the mass of one liter of water, and now defined as the mass of a specific cylinder of platinum-iridium alloy kept at the International Bureau of Weights and Measures in France. Symbol: kg

Kilogramnoun

(proscribed) The unit of weight such that a one-kilogram mass is also a one-kilogram weight.

Kilogramnoun

A measure of weight, being a thousand grams, equal to 2.2046226 pounds avoirdupois (15,432.34 grains). It is equal to the weight of a cubic decimeter of distilled water at the temperature of maximum density, or 39° Fahrenheit.

Kilogramnoun

one thousand grams; the basic unit of mass adopted under the Systeme International d'Unites;

Kilogram

The kilogram (also kilogramme) is the base unit of mass in the International System of Units (SI), the metric system, having the unit symbol kg. It is a widely used measure in science, engineering and commerce worldwide, and is often simply called a kilo in everyday speech.