Definition:Avoirdupois/Short/Quarter
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Definition
The quarter is an avoirdupois unit of mass used mainly in the USA.
| \(\ds \) | \(\) | \(\ds 1\) | quarter | |||||||||||
| \(\ds \) | \(=\) | \(\ds 5\) | short hundredweight | |||||||||||
| \(\ds \) | \(=\) | \(\ds 500\) | pounds avoirdupois | |||||||||||
| \(\ds \) | \(\approx\) | \(\ds 181 \cdotp 44\) | kilograms |
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Linguistic Note on Avoirdupois
The word avoirdupois derives from the Norman French word whose literal translation is goods (that is property, or things owned) of weight.
The avoir part also means to have in modern French, and derives from the Latin habere.
It is pronounced something like av-wah-doo-pwah, although Francophones will be aware that there are further subtleties to this.