pennyweight
Kelime Anlamı :
1. peni ağırlık.
2. dwt yirmi dört buğday ağırlığında eczacı tartısı.
3. yirmi dört buğday ağırlığında ölçü birimi (1,56 gram).
Tanımlar :
1.
A unit of troy weight equal to 24 grains, 1/20 of a troy ounce or approximately 1.555 grams.
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
1.
A former unit of mass equal to 24 grains, or 1/20th of a troy ounce
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
1.
A troy weight containing twenty-four grains, or the twentieth part of a troy ounce; 1.555 grams. it is abbreviated dwt or pwt. it was anciently the weight of a silver penny, whence the name.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
1.
originally, a weight equal to that of the anglo-norman silver penny, 22 ½ grains, or of a tower pound; now, and since the eighteenth year of henry viii., when the use of the tower pound was forbidden, a weight of 24 grains, or of a troy ounce. abbreviated dwt.
2. A proportional measure of one-twelfth, used in stating the fineness of silver. see carat.
2. A proportional measure of one-twelfth, used in stating the fineness of silver. see carat.
from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia