Seers to Ounces (seer to oz)

1 seer equals 32.91428571 ounces (rounded).

1 seer = 32.91428571 ounces

How to convert seers to ounces

To convert seers to ounces, multiply the number of seers by 32.91428571. The factor is rounded to 10 significant digits. To go the other way, multiply ounces by 0.03038194444 (rounded).

ounces = seers × 32.91428571

Example: 10 seers = 329.1428571 ounces.

About these units

Seer (seer)

Indian subcontinentTraditional unit (still used in some regions)

80 tolas, about 933 g. A traditional South Asian measure of grain and other goods.

Over large parts of Asia the seer served as the everyday grocer's weight, used for rice, wheat, ghee and similar goods, and in some places also as a measure of volume. Under the Mughals a seer was 30 dams and 40 seers made a maund. Each British presidency later kept its own version. Bengal reckoned the seer as 16 chitaks of 5 tolas, which is 80 tolas.

The government seer of British India comes to about 0.93310 kg, the figure used here, and the same value survives in Pakistan, Nepal and Aden. After independence India's Standards of Weights and Measures Act of 1956 set the seer at 1.25 kg instead, and then metric weights replaced it. Other values are far apart: Afghanistan uses about 7.066 kg, Iran has a metric seer of 75 g and a sihr of 160 g, and in Sri Lanka the seer is a capacity of about 1.06 L. The word seer must therefore always be tied to a place and date.

1 seer = 0.933104304 kilograms (exactly).

Sources: Wikipedia: Seer (unit); Wikipedia: Tola (unit)

Ounce (oz)

US & ImperialCurrent unit

One sixteenth of a pound, exactly 28.349523125 g. Used for food, mail and consumer goods in the US and UK.

A twelfth part is what ounce originally meant. It comes from the Roman uncia, one twelfth of the Roman pound, a word that also gave English the inch. The abbreviation oz does not come from English at all but from the Italian onza or oncia. Over the centuries many regions and trades used different ounces: the English Tower ounce of 29.16 g was abolished by Henry VIII in 1527, and the Dutch ons was redefined as exactly 100 g in 1820.

The avoirdupois ounce used for everyday goods is one sixteenth of a pound, exactly 28.349523125 g or 437.5 grains, the standard in the US and under the UK imperial system. It is not the same as the troy ounce for precious metals, and neither is the fluid ounce, which measures volume. Ounces still describe portions such as steaks and burgers, and they show up in unexpected places: fabric is graded by weight per area, so a 16 oz denim is a heavy cloth, and the copper on a circuit board is specified in ounces, where 1 oz is roughly 34.7 micrometres thick.

1 ounce = 0.02834952313 kilograms (approximately).

Sources: Wikipedia: Ounce; NIST Guide to the SI, Appendix B.8 (mass conversions)

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