The English stone is a traditional UK unit of weight equal to 14 pounds (6.35 kg), mainly used for measuring body weight.
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A stone is an old English measurement of 14 pounds
The abbreviation for stone as a weight measurement is st.
A physical rock "A stone" is indeed matter. However the weight measurement "stone" is not matter, it is a unit of measurement (which is applied to matter).
The English used to use actual stones as weights to place in balances to weigh large quantities of materials.
It means half a stone. This is not a difficult concept. (It helps to know that a "stone" is a traditional English measurement of weight equivalent to 14 pounds, so half of one would be 7 pounds.)
In the English Imperial measurement system, 1 stone is 14 pounds
1 stone = 14 pounds
The pound (lb) is the same as in the US. Other units used in the UK are the stone, 14lb, the hundredweight, 112 lb, and the ton, 2240 lb. However these traditional units are now largely phased out in favour of metric units.
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Stone is a unit of measurement for weight. As such 15 stone would mean 210Lbs. 1 Stone = 14 Lbs
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J. C. Evans has written: 'Late lamps' 'Measurement of angle in engineering' 'The stone corn' -- subject(s): English poetry