English dictionary
United States Customary System
Definitions, examples, synonyms and antonyms from WordNet 3.0.
noun
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the system of weights and measures based on the foot and pound and second and pint that dates back to colonial America but differs in some respects from the British Imperial System; today in the United States this system exists side by side with the SI system
Source: WordNet 3.0
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