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What is the noun for carat?

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carat
  1. A unit of weight for precious stones and pearls, equivalent to 200 milligrams.
  2. Formerly, any of several units of weight, varying from 189 to 212 mg, the weight of a carob seed.
  3. A measure of the purity of gold, pure gold being 24 carats.
  4. Examples:
    1. “Here, gold foil is inserted between the gemstones and only 24 carat gold is used.”
      “He hand picks the diamonds himself for the engagement rings and sets them in platinum rather than 18 carat gold.”
      “It is a superb gold half-hunter with top quality 19 jewel Waltham Riverside movement in a heavy 18 carat Dennison case.”
karat
  1. (US) A unit of fineness or concentration of gold equalling 1/24 part of gold in an alloy.
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  3. Examples:
    1. “She proudly showed off her new gold necklace, boasting that it was made of 24 karat gold.”
      “Opening it, he showed her a beautiful diamond, surrounded by 14 karat white gold.”
      “The refinery in the USA continued its strong trend of growth by gaining market share of karat gold scrap refining.”
karats
  1. plural of karat
  2. Synonyms:
carats
  1. plural of carat
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  3. Examples:
    1. “Russia will supply 30,000 carats of rough diamonds for jewellery and 1 million carats of technical diamonds.”
      “Faceted stones weighing 25.56 and 61.24 carats along with a rhombohedron of rhodochrosite on matrix are illustrated and discussed by Sinkankas.”
      “Good brown macle twins up to several carats in weight have been available in recent years from the Udachnaya mine.”
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