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Uncia (unit) - Wikipedia

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Ancient Roman unit of length

The uncia (plural: unciae, lit. "a twelfth") was a Roman unit of length, weight, and volume. It survived as the Byzantine liquid ounce (Ancient Greek: οὐγγία, oungía) and the origin of the English inch, ounce, and fluid ounce.

The Roman inch was equal to 112 of a Roman foot (pes), which was standardized under Agrippa to about 0.97 inches or 24.6 millimeters.[citation needed]

The Roman ounce was 112 of a Roman pound.[1]

  1. ^ "ounce, n.1", Oxford English Dictionary, 1st ed., Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1911.

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