Key facts
- Unit.name
- teaspoon
- Unit.image
- 4MeasuringSpoons.jpg
- Unit.caption
- Measuring spoons, with the second largest one representing the volume of a teaspoon.
- Unit.standard
- Imperial units, US customary units
- Unit.quantity
- Volume
- Unit.symbol
- tsp
- Unit.units_imp1
- SI units
- Unit.inunits_imp1
- 3.552 mL
- Unit.units_imp2
- US customary units
- Unit.inunits_imp2
- 0.721 US tsp
- Unit.units_us1
- SI units
- Unit.inunits_us1
- 4.929 mL
- Unit.units_us2
- Imperial units
- Unit.inunits_us2
- 1.388 imp tsp
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Encyclopedic overview
13 sectionsContents
- Cutlery
- History
- Unit of measure {{anchor |unit}}
- Metric teaspoon
- United States customary unit
- British culinary measurement unit
- Dry ingredients
- Apothecary
- See also
- Notes
- References
- Sources
- External links
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A teaspoon (tsp.) is a small spoon that can be used to stir a cup of tea or coffee, or as a tool for measuring volume. The size of teaspoons ranges from about . For dosing of medicine and, in places where metric units are used, for cooking purposes, a teaspoonful is defined as , and standard measuring spoons are used.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “teaspoon” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.