pint

pint

1. a unit of liquid measure of capacity equal to one eighth of a gallon. 1 Brit pint is equal to 0.568 litre, 1 US pint to 0.473 litre

2. a unit of dry measure of capacity equal to one half of a quart. 1 US dry pint is equal to one sixty-fourth of a US bushel or 0.5506 litre

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pint

[pīnt]

(mechanics)

Abbreviated pt.

A unit of volume, used in the United States for measurement of liquid substances, equal to 1/8 U.S. gallon, or 231/8 cubic inches, or 4.73176473 × 10^-4 cubic meter. Also known as liquid pint (liq pt).

A unit of volume used in the United States for measurement of solid substances, equal to 1/64 U.S. bushel, or 107,521/3200 cubic inches, or approximately 5.50610 × 10^-4 cubic meter. Also known as dry pint (dry pt).

A unit of volume, used in the United Kingdom for measurement of liquid and solid substances, although usually the former, equal to 1/8 imperial gallon, or 5.6826125 × 10^-4 cubic meter. Also known as imperial pint.

McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Scientific & Technical Terms, 6E, Copyright © 2003 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.

The following article is from The Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1979). It might be outdated or ideologically biased.

Pint

 

a unit of volume (capacity) of liquids and dry commodities used in countries employing the English system of measures. In Great Britain 1 pint = 1/8 gallon = 0.568261 dm³. In the United States a distinction is made between the liquid pint, equal to 1/8 American gallon (0.473179 dm³), and the dry pint, equal to 1/64 American bushel (0.550614 dm³). The pint was also used in other countries before they adopted the metric system (for example, in France 1 pint = 0.931389 dm³, and in the Netherlands 1 pint = 0.6063 dm³).

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