Large

The title of this article is ambiguous. Further meanings are listed under Gros (disambiguation) .

Auxiliary unit of measure
Unit name	Large
Unit symbol	${\displaystyle \mathrm {gr} }$
Formula symbol	${\displaystyle {\mathit {n}}}$
Type	Counting measure
definition	${\displaystyle \mathrm {1\,gr=144} }$
Named after	french big
See also: shock , dozen

Gros refers to an old unit of measurement, a measure for measuring quantities according to their number.

The large [ gʀɔs ] (from French large ; from Latin largeus ; rare, rather incorrect, also "large" or "large") is a dozen times a dozen, in decimal numbers 12 times 12 equals 144 units (pieces). It is also called "small bulk" or "big dozen". A “measure” is accordingly a dozen large, i.e. twelve times twelve times twelve (twelve to the power of three) equal to 1728 units. It is also referred to as "large large" or "large large".

The "great majority" has always been the majority of the wholesalers (distributors), while the "small majority" in the retail trade ( retail ) was used (and sometimes still is). Hence the commercial term taken from French for wholesale (as opposed to en détail - in detail ) for the purchase or sale of goods in large numbers.

Other names were in

• Spain : Gruesa
• Netherlands : Gröthen
• Denmark : 12 dozen or Tylt

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  Contemporary example of the use of the terms en wholesaling / en detail

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  Quantity designation "1 Gros" on a drawing pin box from Pelikan

See also

Wiktionary: Gros  - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations

• Old weights and measures (German-speaking area)
• Duodecimal system

Individual evidence

1. ^ Johann Friedrich Krüger : Complete manual of the coins, measures and weights of all countries in the world . Verlag Gottfried Basse, Quedlinburg / Leipzig 1830, p. 118. ( Digitized , J. F. Krüger published this work under the pseudonym Friedrich Albert Niemann ).