Editing Teaspoon (section)

{{Short description|Kind of spoon}}
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|[[Serving spoon]] 
|[[Tablespoon]] (tbsp.)
|[[Dessert spoon]] (dsp.)
|Teaspoon (tsp.)}}]]

A '''teaspoon''' ('''tsp.''') is a small [[spoon]] that can be used to stir a cup of [[tea]] or [[coffee]], or as a tool for [[Cooking measures|measuring]] [[volume]].<ref name="mosbys">{{cite book |editor=Marie O'Toole |title=Mosby's Medical Dictionary, 9th edition |date=6 June 2013 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=aW0zkZl0JgQC&pg=PA1746|page=1746 |publisher=Elsevier Health Sciences |isbn=978-0323112581 }}</ref><ref name="sinclair">{{cite book|author=Charles Sinclair|title=Dictionary of Food: International Food and Cooking Terms from A to Z|date=January 2009|publisher=A&C Black |isbn=9781408102183|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Mdwm7jI9J10C&pg=PT37}}</ref> The size of teaspoons ranges from about {{cvt|2.5|to|7.3|mL|lk=out}}. For dosing of medicine and, in places where metric units are used, for cooking purposes, a teaspoonful is defined as {{cvt|5|mL}}, and standard [[measuring spoon]]s are used.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.nhs.uk/news/pregnancy-and-child/spoons-give-wrong-medicine-doses/|title=Spoons give wrong medicine doses|website=NHS UK|date=15 July 2010|access-date=21 February 2020|archive-date=11 November 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201111220418/https://www.nhs.uk/news/pregnancy-and-child/spoons-give-wrong-medicine-doses/|url-status=dead}}</ref>