1 gross = 1 dozen dozens = 144 items
(There's also a "great gross" . . . 1 dozen gross, or 1,728 items.)
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1 gross is 144 (12 dozen). A single unit is 1/144 of a gross.
A baker's gross traditionally consists of 144 items.
Gross salary, net salary, deductions (taxes, pension contributions), bonuses or additional earnings, employer name and contact information.
1 of anything is 1.6605E-24 moles of that type of thing, no matter what it is (e.g. a quark, an electron, an atom, a molecule, an egg, a person, a planet, a galaxy). The mole is a unitless number similar in concept to the dozen (12 things) or the gross (144 things), except it is a much larger value (6.0221E23 things).
"Gross" in French can be translated as "dégoûtant" or "répugnant", depending on the context.