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(en noun) abbreviation oz.
An avoirdupois ounce, weighing 1/16 of an avoirdupois pound, or 28.3495 grams.
A troy ounce, weighing 1/12 of a troy pound, or 480 grains, or 31.1035 grams.
A US fluid ounce, with a volume of 1/16 of a US pint, 1.804 687 cubic inches or 29.573 531 milliliters.
A British imperial fluid ounce, with a volume of 1/20 of an imperial pint, 1.733871 cubic inches or 28.413063 millilitres.
A little bit.
Untrue, not factual, factually incorrect.
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Spurious, artificial.
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*:At her invitation he outlined for her the succeeding chapters with terse military accuracy?; and what she liked best and best understood was avoidance of that false modesty which condescends, turning technicality into pabulum.
(lb) Of a state in Boolean logic that indicates a negative result.
Uttering falsehood; dishonest or deceitful.
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Not faithful or loyal, as to obligations, allegiance, vows, etc.; untrue; treacherous.
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*(John Milton) (1608-1674)
*:I to myself was false , ere thou to me.
Not well founded; not firm or trustworthy; erroneous.
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*(Edmund Spenser) (c.1552–1599)
*:whose false foundation waves have swept away
Not essential or permanent, as parts of a structure which are temporary or supplemental.
(lb) Out of tune.
As a noun ounce
is an avoirdupois ounce, weighing 1/16 of an avoirdupois pound, or 283495 grams or ounce can be the snow leopard, uncia uncia .As an adjective false is
(label) one of two states of a boolean variable; logic.ounce
English
(wikipedia ounce)Etymology 1
From (etyl) once, from (etyl) . Compare inch.Noun
- He didn't feel even an ounce of regret for his actions.
Synonyms
* (small amount) see also .Etymology 2
From (etyl) once, from . Interestingly, the taxon of the snow leopard is a Latinisation using the root of ounce (1).External links
* (Uncia uncia)Anagrams
*false
English
Adjective
(er)A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles: Founded Mainly on the Materials Collected by the Philological Society, section=Part 1, publisher=Clarendon Press, location=Oxford, editor= , volume=1, page=217 , passage=Also the rule of false position, with dyuers examples not onely vulgar, but some appertaynyng to the rule of Algeber.}}