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Noun
(metrology) An SI unit of mass equal to 102 grams. Symbol: hg
Examples
Fractions of a hectogram shall not be counted when not exceeding 50 grams, but shall be considered as a hectogram when they exceed that weight.
The weight of the child was measured to the nearest hectogram using Health Scale model TZ 120 and the length to the nearest centimetre in recumbent position.
As the eagle, dine, and mill are disowned in actual practice, so will probably the hectogram, dekagram, decigram, and milligram, be disowned in writing and dispensing medical prescriptions.
Whole olives should be size graded according to the number of fruit in one kilogram or hectogram.
The objects that you are to bring for tomorrow's assignment, should weigh a gram, a decagram, a hectogram, and a kilogram.
Then if we use these weights in practice and we have to weigh, let us say, 7 hectograms or 700 grams, we shall have to pile up 7 weights of one hectogram each in the pan.
