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▸ noun: The short ton of 2000 pounds (about 907 kg), 20 hundredweights of 100 pounds avoirdupois each.
▸ noun: The long ton of 2240 pounds (about 1016 kg), 20 hundredweights of 112 pounds avoirdupois each.
▸ noun: The metric ton of 1000 kilograms, 10 quintals of 100 kilograms each.
▸ noun: Any of various units of volume, originally notionally equal to the contents of a tun
▸ noun: The measurement ton of (US) 40 or (UK) 42 cubic feet (about 1.1 or 1.2 m³).
▸ noun: The register ton of 100 cubic feet (about 2.83 m³).
▸ noun: (figuratively) Any large, excessive, or overwhelming amount of anything.
▸ noun: (HVAC) A unit of thermal power equal to 12,000 BTU/h (about 3.5 kW), approximating the idealized rate of cooling provided by uniform isothermal melting of 1 short ton of ice per day at 0°C.
▸ noun: (colloquial, chiefly UK) Synonym of hundred, particularly
▸ noun: 100 pounds sterling.
▸ noun: (darts, snooker, etc.) 100 points.
▸ noun: (cricket) 100 runs.
▸ noun: A speed of 100 mph.
▸ noun: Fashion, the current style, the vogue.
▸ noun: Fashionable society; those in style.
▸ noun: Synonym of tunny, particularly the common tunny or horse mackerel.
▸ noun: Initialism of threshold odor number.
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long ton,
short ton,
gross ton,
net ton,
measurement ton,
tonne,
tertian,
tonner,
tonnelada,
displacement ton,
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