baker's
adj1
Rare, With numbers or quantities Slightly supernumerary; a little more than. (Derived from baker's dozen.)
- A baker's half-dozen of the best sorts, of proven merit, are Festiva maxima, the finest white; Couronne d'Or, a very late-flowering white; Felix Crousse, brilliant red; Mme. Crousse, white and crimson; Duchess de Nemours, sulphur white and fragrant; Marie Lemoine, ivory white; Delicatissima, crimson purple.1915, House & Garden, page 55:
- […] thirty, a baker's twenty-eight, presumably. We were all delighted, particularly the baker and the guide, the former refusing money.1953, Charles Landery, Whistling for a Wind, page 93:
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- The "K" stands for "one thousand," almost; actually, it means 1,024, sort of a baker's thousand. Sombody got enamored with binary numbers and thought that 2 to the 10th power was neat, so the result, 1,024, stuck. Most people could care less, once they understand they are getting a little more than they[…]1985, Carole Boggs Matthews, Martin S. Matthews, Word Processing for the IBM PC and PCjr and Compatible Computers: A Step-by-step Guide for the Hundreds of Thousands who are Buying, Or are Thinking about Buying an IBM PC, IBM PCjr, Or One of the Compatible Computers, McGraw-Hill Companies, page 108: