troy grain

English

Etymology

Morphologically, from Troyes, town in Northern France + grain, unit of mass

Noun

troy grain (plural troy grains)

1. A unit of mass, equal to 1/24 of a pennyweight or 1/480 of a troy ounce, fixed at 0.064 798 91 grams under the metric system.

   Synonym: grain

   Hypernym: grain

   Coordinate terms: troy ounce, troy pound