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av·oir·du·pois
(ăv′ər-də-poiz′)n.
1. Abbr. av. or avdp. Avoirdupois weight.
2. Informal Weight or heaviness, especially of a person.
[Middle English avoir de pois, commodities sold by weight, alteration of Old French aveir de peis, goods of weight : aveir, avoir, to have (from Latin habēre; see able) + de, of (from Latin dē, from; see de-) + peis, pois, weight (from Vulgar Latin *pēsum, from Latin pēnsum, past participle of pendere, to hang; see (s)pen- in Indo-European roots).]
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avoirdupois
(ˌævədəˈpɔɪz; ˌævwɑːdjuːˈpwɑː) oravoirdupois weight
n
(Units) a system of weights used in many English-speaking countries. It is based on the pound, which contains 16 ounces or 7000 grains. 100 pounds (US) or 112 pounds (Brit) is equal to 1 hundredweight and 20 hundredweights equals 1 ton. Abbreviation: avdp or avoir
[C14: from Old French aver de peis goods of weight]
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av•oir•du•pois
(ˌæv ər dəˈpɔɪz)n.
2. Informal. bodily weight; heaviness: excess avoirdupois.
[1250–1300; Middle English avoir de pois literally, property of weight < Old French, =avoir (< Latin habēre to have) + de (< Latin dē) + pois (< Latin pēnsum) weight]
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Noun | 1. | ![]() system of weights, weight - a system of units used to express the weight of something avoirdupois unit - any of the units of the avoirdupois system of weights |
2. | ![]() bodily property - an attribute of the body adiposeness, adiposity, fattiness - having the property of containing fat; "he recommended exercise to reduce my adiposity" abdominousness, paunchiness - the bodily property of a protruding belly corpulency, fleshiness - more than average fatness steatopygia - an extreme accumulation of fat on the buttocks |
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avoirdupois
nounInformal. The state or quality of being physically heavy:
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