Imperial System -- from Eric Weisstein's World of Physics

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Imperial System

The system of official British liquid and dry measures summarized in the following table.

unit abbrev. definition metric
bushel bu 4 pecks 0.036
peck pk 2 gallons 0.009
gallon gal 4 quarts 4.545 l
quart qt 2 pints 1.136 l
pint pt 4 gills 568.26 cc
gill gi 5 fluidounces 142.066 cc
fluidounce fl oz 8 fluidrams 28.416 cc
fluidram fl dr 60 minims 3.5516 cc
minim min 1/60 fluidram 0.059194 cc

Apothecaries' System of Weights, cgs, MKS, SI, United States System of Liquid and Dry Measures




References

Woolf, H. B. (Ed. in Chief). Webster's New Collegiate Dictionary. Springfield, MA: Merriam, p. 1329, 1980.



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