Dozen vs. Kilogram

Dozen vs. Kilogram — Is There a Difference?
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Difference Between Dozen and Kilogram

Dozennoun

A set of twelve.

Can I have a dozen eggs, please?I ordered two dozen doughnuts.There shouldn't be more than two dozen Christmas cards left to write.Pack the shirts in dozens, please.

Kilogramnoun

In the International System of Units, the base unit of mass; conceived of as the mass of one liter of water, and now defined as the mass of a specific cylinder of platinum-iridium alloy kept at the International Bureau of Weights and Measures in France. Symbol: kg

Dozennoun

A large, unspecified number of, comfortably estimated in small multiples of twelve, thus generally implied to be significantly more than ten or twelve, but less than perhaps one or two hundred; many.

There must have been dozens of examples just on the first page.There were dozens and dozens of applicants before the job was posted.

Kilogramnoun

(proscribed) The unit of weight such that a one-kilogram mass is also a one-kilogram weight.

Dozennoun

(metallurgy) An old English measure of ore containing 12 hundredweight.

Kilogramnoun

one thousand grams; the basic unit of mass adopted under the Systeme International d'Unites;

a kilogram is approximately 2.2 pounds
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Dozennoun

the cardinal number that is the sum of eleven and one

Dozenadjective

denoting a quantity consisting of 12 items or units