So McDonald's chicken nuggets, for example, are bits of meat, pressed and formed into shapes of standard weight, rather than actual pieces of chicken.
I told him my budget was $25, and he outfitted me with a set of three 24-gram darts, a fairly standard weight, for $22.50.
In a monetary sense, the term sterling was formerly used to describe the standard weight or quality of English coinage.
"Not everybody is trying to accomplish the same things physically," said Angela Taylor, a sales coordinator at Healthworks, which offers standard weight machines, treadmills and swimming pools to members.
The problem came to light when government scientists at the US National Institutes of Health in Maryland realised standard weight loss advice – including its own – failed to account for changes in metabolism as people lost weight.
Johnson increased his bench press repetitions at 225 pounds -- the standard weight used by N.F.L. teams to measure strength -- from 7 times to 19; his time at 40 yards went to 4.74 from about 5.0.
Over time, the bottle was gradually recalibrated until 900 grams, or about two pounds, became the standard weight in the early 1970s.
Let ν be a standard weight.
Pes Standard: weight of the reference standard in g.
