A unit of weight, 24 grains or one twentieth of an ounce troy.
本尼威特（重量单位，等于24格令或金衡盎司的1/20）
Example sentencesExamples
They are each to be of the value of half a cent, and to contain five pennyweights and a half a pennyweight of copper.
One troy pound weighs 373.25 g and is subdivided into troy ounces, pennyweight and grains (gr, 24 in a pennyweight).
Both agreed there was gold - one suggesting up to two and a half ounces per ton of quartz, the other ‘equal to one ounce eleven pennyweights per ton.’
Gold is measured using troy weights (as opposed to the more familiar avoirdupois weights): 24 grains make a pennyweight, and 20 pennyweights make a 31.1-gram troy ounce.
The measured weights of these nut spoons are nine and seven pennyweights, respectively, below the average weight of this piece.
Definition of pennyweight in US English:
pennyweight
nounˈpenēˌwātˈpɛniˌweɪt
A unit of weight, 24 grains or one twentieth of an ounce troy.
本尼威特（重量单位，等于24格令或金衡盎司的1/20）
Example sentencesExamples
They are each to be of the value of half a cent, and to contain five pennyweights and a half a pennyweight of copper.
One troy pound weighs 373.25 g and is subdivided into troy ounces, pennyweight and grains (gr, 24 in a pennyweight).
The measured weights of these nut spoons are nine and seven pennyweights, respectively, below the average weight of this piece.
Both agreed there was gold - one suggesting up to two and a half ounces per ton of quartz, the other ‘equal to one ounce eleven pennyweights per ton.’
Gold is measured using troy weights (as opposed to the more familiar avoirdupois weights): 24 grains make a pennyweight, and 20 pennyweights make a 31.1-gram troy ounce.