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carat

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n. a unit of weight for precious stones = 200 mg the unit of measurement for the proportion of gold in an alloy; 18-karat gold is 75% gold; 24-karat gold is pure gold [syn: Karat ]

Usage examples of carat.

Unmarked stones were generally sold in lots of much smaller carat size.

So the price per carat rises sharply as the total weight of the stone increases.

Small stones, to be sure, not one of them more than half a carat, but diamonds for all that, and some of them of excellent quality.

Perhaps its simply an inferior alloy, such as ten carat gold, or even eight.

They were set in a nine-million-dollar pair of earrings, each carat costing three hundred thousand dollars.

If six carats was too small, she doubted that seven and a quarter would do, but you never could tell.

He had some carved Mughal rubies in his own collection, but nothing more than ten carats, and nothing of the quality of the Montegeau ruby.

I tell you with absolute certainty there are millions of carats of diamonds lying in the crotch of Thunderbolt and Suicide.

The smallest of these stones weighed fourteen carats, the largest a formidable fifty-six carats.

Two perfect diamonds of ten or twelve carats each, and perhaps five smaller ones.

It would not allow a stone over four carats to pass through, and it screened out fixed percentages of the smaller stones - allowing only a proportion of the smaller and less valuable diamonds to proceed through into the main X-ray room.

The Jubilee Diamond, a superb 245-carat cushion of unearthly fire fashioned out of 650-carat rough - then the biggest of them all, a monstrous rough stone of 3,106 carats, the Cullinan which yielded not one, but two paragons.

The Great Star of Africa at 530 carats and The Cullinan II at 317 carats.

Each time the reply had been consistent - not a single stone over four carats, and a very precious few of any others.

The computer ended by giving the grand total of carats recovered, and Johnny spoke for the first time.