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- noun Plural form of
hectogram .
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Examples
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See data below from FAOSTAT with respect to cereal yields in hectograms per ha:
Francois and Dano on Agricultural Yields « Climate Audit 2006
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'Here's his description,' he says: 'eyelashes, eight killomethres long; eyes, blue an' assymethrical; jaw, bituminous; measuremint fr'm abaft th 'left ear to base iv maxillory glan's, four hectograms; a r-red scar runnin' fr'm th 'noomo-gasthric narve to th' sicond dorsal verteebree, 'he says.
Mr. Dooley: In the Hearts of His Countrymen Finley Peter Dunne 1901
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An increase of a load in the hand from nine to ten hectograms makes no great difference in the feeling, whereas an increase from one to two hectograms is easily appreciable.
Lectures on Stellar Statistics Carl Vilhelm Ludvig Charlier 1898
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'because, whin I pulled out th' tape line, he rowled me eighty hectograms down th 'sthreet,' he says.
Mr. Dooley: In the Hearts of His Countrymen Finley Peter Dunne 1901
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