Dozen is another word for the number twelve. It originates from the Latin word duodecim. The dozen may be one of the earliest primitive groupings, perhaps because there are approximately a dozen cycles of the moon in a cycle of the sun. The use of twelve as a base number, known as the duodecimal system, probably originated in Mesopotamia. Twelve dozen (122 = 144) are known as a gross. Twelve gross (123 = 1,728) is called a great gross, a term most often used when shipping or buying items in bulk. A great hundred is 120 or ten dozen (a dozen for each finger on both hands).
The dozen is convenient because its multipliers and multiples are convenient: 12 = 3 × 2 × 2, and 360 = 30 × 12. The French word douzaine means "about twelve" and is part of a family of words with similar meanings, e.g. vingtaine - "about 20" centaine - "about 100" etc. A baker's dozen, also known as a long dozen, is thirteen.
Base twelve.
Number 12
Baker's dozen
Check out the following recipes that are tagged "Dozen":
No-Bake Almond Chocolate Cookies, Moravian Sugar Cookies, Mint Wafers, Nancy Reagan's Vienna Bars, Mexican Wedding Cookies, Meringues (Plain And Chocolate Filled), Meringues(Plain and Chocolate Filled), Soft Pineapple Cookies, Lemon Poinsettia Cookies, Soft Molasses Cookies (L.a. Times), Easy Cheese and Shrimp Gyozas (East/west), Steamed Kauai Clams With Lemongrass And Green Curry Sauce, Koala Kookies, Kolace Fillings, New England Clam Chowder No.X, Italian Pizzelle Using Anise, Iced Pumpkin Cookies, Honey Carrot Cookies, Banana Cream Pie - Bakers' Dozen, Homemade Slice & Bake Peanut Butter Cookies, Hazelnut Spritz, Oysters Trufant, Creme De Menthe Brownies, Goldy's Honey-Ginger Snaps, Ginger Snaps, French Sables, Fig Star Cookies, Butterscotch Brownies, Famous Oatmeal Cookies, Pat Nixon's White House Cookies, East Texas Pecan Drops, Double Chocolate Drops, Sugarless Wheat 'n' Fruit Cookies, Dainty Sandwich Cookies, Old Fashioned Sugar Cookies-Tvfn, Coconut Sandies, Sugarplums(Vegetarian), High-Tech Crackers, Chocolate Malted Cookies, Chocolate Brownie Cookies, Chinese Fortune Cookies, Checkerboard Cookies, Butterscotch Freeze 'n Slice Cookies, Buttery Drop Cookies And Variations, Hillary Clinton's Chocolate Chip Oatmeal Cooki, Butterscotch Chocolate Chunk Cookies ("David's-Style"), Rollerblade Cookies, Hillary Clinton's Chocolate Chip Oatmeal Cook, Bon Bons, Biscochitos
