gram

/ˈɡɹæm/

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Other forms: grams

A gram is a very small unit of weight. Ninety grams, a few grams, grams per litre.

It is roughly the weight of a paperclip, and a millilitre of water weighs one. Oddly, the kilogram rather than the gram is the base unit of the metric system, which is the only base unit with a prefix built into its name. The Greek gramma meant a small weight.

Definitions of gram

1noungramA unit of weight, a thousandth of a kilogram.A2+
“The recipe needs two hundred grams of flour and two eggs.”

gram is a unit of weight.

Where it comes from

French gramme comes from Greek gramma, a small weight or a written character.

Ancient Greek
γράμμα — a small weight, a scruple
French
gramme
English, today
gram

From French gramme, from Ancient Greek γράμμα (“a small weight, a scruple”). a doublet of gramma.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

Practised in Numbers & Measurement

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gram in the wild

If, instead of the Latin ones, the English cardinal numbers are furtherly used, then they are called "four-gram", "five-gram", etc.
N-gram
When the items are words, n-grams may also be called shingles.
N-gram
The gram panchayat is headed by an elected President and Vice President, assisted by a Secretary who serves as the administrative head of the panchayat.
Gram panchayat
The president of a gram panchayat is known as a "Pradhan" or "Sarpanch" in Northern India.
Gram panchayat
A sarpanch, gram pradhan, mukhiya or president is an elected decision-maker, who heads the village-level constitutional body of local self-government called the Gram Panchayat (village government) in India.
Sarpanch

From Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. These sentences were written by other people about their own subjects; they are here to show the word at work, not as anybody’s opinion.

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