[a. F. titre: see TITRATE.] The fineness of gold or silver; in Chem. the strength of a solution as determined by titration.
1839. Ure, Dict. Arts, 858. The French rule for finding the par of a foreign gold coin,… is to multiply its weight by its standard or titre.
1903. Amer. Chem. Jrnl., March, 188. The solution was kept cooled to 15°. One cc. was removed at intervals (5 cc. in all), and the ‘immediate’ titer was found to gradually decrease from its original value of 6.4 to 1.2 in about one-half hour, the total active oxygen content … remaining the same.
