IAtionary: Grammage

Gram-mage [GRAM ij] n.

1. The mass of an object, expressed in grams; What's the grammage of this rock?


Also:
Met-er-age
1. A distance or length, expressed in meters

Se-cond-age
1. An amount of time, expressed in seconds

Kel-vin-age
1. A temperature, expressed in kelvins

New-ton-age
1. The magnitude of a force, expressed in Newtons

Coul-omb-age
1. A quantity of electric charge, expressed in coulombs

et cetera

In Fisix 10, when we first heard the term "potential difference," Mr. Lyons painfully admitted that because "voltage" had become so commonplace, he was forced to accept its use in fisix class. He did make it clear, however, that he did not like using the term as it is overly colloquial and has no real place in the fisix curriculum. He then wondered aloud what would happen if we went up to our chemistry teachers and asked, "Hey, what's the grammage on that?" Naturally, I like the idea, and see no reason why we can't use this format for any quantity at all. As far as I can tell, it should even work for compound units; why say "Newtonage" when you can get away with "kilogram-meter-per-secondage?"