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by notum 3999 days ago
Dictionary to the rescue! All they need to do is to include a piezo pressure sensor in the fist kit.

tron (trɒn) n: a public weighing machine

[C15: from Old French trone, from Latin trutina, from Greek trutanē balance, set of scales]

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Amazon and google are also words to find in a dictionary but that doesn't get in the way of enforcing their trademark
Google is in the dictionary? Since when? Maybe you are thinking of 'googol'?
Yup, it's in the Oxford English Dictionary. I don't know when, but I'm guessing after September 4, 1998.
The online version says for me "This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, March 2006)" for capitalised "Google", meaning "To use the Google search engine to find information on the Internet."

It also has a lower-case "google", in a cricket-related meaning, from 1933; so it has that in common with Amazon, whose meaning in the OED is still unrelated to the company.

Of the ball: to have a ‘googly’ break and swerve. Of the bowler: to bowl a googly or googlies; also (trans.), to give a googly break to (a ball).