Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A unit of measure for the fineness of gold, equal to 1/24 part. Pure gold is 24 karat; gold that is 50 percent pure is 12 karat.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun See
carat .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun the unit of measurement for the proportion of gold in an alloy; 18-karat gold is 75 2.122e-314old; 24-karat gold is pure gold.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun US A
unit offineness orconcentration ofgold equalling 1/24 part ofgold in analloy .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the unit of measurement for the proportion of gold in an alloy; 18-karat gold is 75% gold; 24-karat gold is pure gold
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Whenever gold is purchased, sold, or even discussed, the term karat weight seems to tag along with it.
The New Homemaker regeenag 2009
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Vronsky, Anna Karenina's faithless lover, is from the Russian voron, ` raven, 'and Karenina is from the word karat ` to punish.'
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Also, that dental gold is more than 15-karat, which is, sadly, better quality than most of the jewelry I own.
Minyanville 2010
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A karat is a measure of the portion of pure gold in an alloy.
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A karat is a measure of the portion of pure gold in an alloy.
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A karat is a measure of the portion of pure gold in an alloy.
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The mystique surrounding words such as karat and carat most probably survives from the days of the Old World craftsmen.
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The mystique surrounding words such as karat and carat most probably survives from the days of the Old World craftsmen.
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The mystique surrounding words such as karat and carat most probably survives from the days of the Old World craftsmen.
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The mystique surrounding words such as karat and carat most probably survives from the days of the Old World craftsmen.
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