Usually means: Unit of mass for gemstones.
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We found 42 dictionaries that define the word carat:

General (28 matching dictionaries)
  1. carat: Merriam-Webster
  2. carat: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. carat: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. carat: Collins English Dictionary
  5. carat: Vocabulary.com
  6. Carat, carat: Wordnik
  7. carat: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. carat: Wiktionary
  9. carat: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. carat: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. carat: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Carat: Dictionary.com
  13. carat: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Carat (board game), Carat (disambiguation), Carat (mass), Carat (purity), Carat (unit), Carat: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Carat: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. carat: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. carat: Rhymezone
  18. carat, carat (m): AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. carat: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. carat: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  21. carat: FreeDictionary.org
  22. carat: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. carat: TheFreeDictionary.com
  24. carat: Dictionary.com
  25. carat: Online Etymology Dictionary
  26. carat: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. carat: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology

Business (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. carat: Finance-Glossary.com
  2. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  3. Carat (disambiguation), Carat: Legal dictionary
  4. carat: Financial dictionary
  5. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Carat (disambiguation), carat: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Carat (disambiguation), carat: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. CARAT: Acronym Finder
  2. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. How Many? A Dictionary of Units of Measurement (No longer online)

Tech (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. GLOSSARY OF JEWELRY-RELATED TERMS (No longer online)
  2. IndyGem Glossary (No longer online)
  3. Carat: Gems and Precious Stones

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  A metric unit of mass equal to exactly 200 mg, chiefly used for measuring precious stones and pearls.
noun:  (historical) Any of several small units of mass used for measuring precious stones and pearls, equivalent to 189–212 mg.
noun:  A 24-point scale used to measure the purity of gold.

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