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  • noun The same as hectogram.

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  • noun rare, UK Alternative spelling of hectogram.

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Examples

  • Whereas, as we know, one litre of ordinary water weighs one kilogramme, one litre of heavy water weighs about one kilogramme and one hectogramme, which approximately corresponds to the increase in the weight of the molecule.

    Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1934 - Presentation Speech 1966

  • When they get the gramme then they have decigramme, centigramme, milligramme, decagramme, hectogramme, and kilogramme.

    The British and the Metric Systems 1907

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