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TON; TON (disambiguation)
Ton
UNIT OF MASS OR VOLUME, VARYING BY LANGUAGE AND PLACE
Ton (volume); Dry ton; Dry tonne; Kilotons of TNT; MTHM; A ton; 2,000 lb; Displacement ton; Assay ton; Tonne of coal equivalent; Ton (unit); Ton (mass); Kilotonnes of TNT
·- ·pl of Toe.
II. Ton ·noun A measure of weight or quantity.
III. Ton ·noun The weight of twenty hundredweight.
IV. Ton ·noun The common tunny, or house mackerel.
V. Ton ·noun The prevailing fashion or mode; vogue; as, things of ton.
VI. Ton ·noun Forty cubic feet of space, being the unit of measurement of the burden, or carrying capacity, of a vessel; as a vessel of 300 tons burden.
VII. Ton ·noun A certain weight or quantity of merchandise, with reference to transportation as freight; as, six hundred weight of ship bread in casks, seven hundred weight in bags, eight hundred weight in bulk; ten bushels of potatoes; eight sacks, or ten barrels, of flour; forty cubic feet of rough, or fifty cubic feet of hewn, timber, ·etc.
ton
UNIT OF MASS OR VOLUME, VARYING BY LANGUAGE AND PLACE
Ton (volume); Dry ton; Dry tonne; Kilotons of TNT; MTHM; A ton; 2,000 lb; Displacement ton; Assay ton; Tonne of coal equivalent; Ton (unit); Ton (mass); Kilotonnes of TNT
I. n.
[Fr.] Fashion, mode, vogue.
II. n.
(Com.)
1.
Twenty hundred gross, 2,240 pounds.
2.
Forty cubic feet.
3.
Forty solid feet (round), fifty-four feet (square).
4.
Eight sacks or ten barrels of flour.
5.
Ten bushels of potatoes.
ton
UNIT OF MASS OR VOLUME, VARYING BY LANGUAGE AND PLACE
Ton (volume); Dry ton; Dry tonne; Kilotons of TNT; MTHM; A ton; 2,000 lb; Displacement ton; Assay ton; Tonne of coal equivalent; Ton (unit); Ton (mass); Kilotonnes of TNT
ton1 [t?n]
(abbrev.: t, also US tn)
¦ noun
1. (also long ton) a unit of weight equal to 2,240 lb avoirdupois (1016.05 kg).
2. (also short ton) chiefly N. Amer. a unit of weight equal to 2,000 lb avoirdupois (907.19 kg).
3. short for metric ton.
4. (also displacement ton) a unit of measurement of a ship's weight representing the weight of water it displaces with the load line just immersed, equal to 2,240 lb or 35 cu. ft (0.99 cubic metres).
5. (also freight ton) a unit of weight or volume of sea cargo, equal to a metric ton (1,000 kg) or 40 cu. ft.
6. (also gross ton) a unit of gross internal capacity, equal to 100 cu. ft (2.83 cubic metres).
(also net or register ton) an equivalent unit of net internal capacity.
7. a unit of refrigerating power able to freeze 2,000 lb of water at 0°C in 24 hours.
8. a measure of capacity for various materials, especially 40 cu. ft of wood.
9. informal a large number or amount.
10. Brit. informal a hundred, in particular a speed of 100 mph, a score of 100 or more, or a sum of ?100.
¦ adverb (tons) Brit. informal much; a lot: I feel tons better.
Origin
ME: var. of tun, both spellings being used for the container and the weight.
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ton2 [t? on]
¦ noun
1. fashionable style or distinction.
2. (the ton) [treated as sing. or plural] fashionable society.
Origin
Fr., from L. tonus (see tone).
Wikipedia
Ton (disambiguation)
A ton is a unit of mass, force, volume, energy or power.
Ton or TON may also refer to:
Examples of use of Ton
1. They include '10,000–ton beef and veal, 141,000–ton lamb and 141,000–ton mutton.
2. Iran’s Cargo plan arrived with 1' ton food item and 7,1 ton tentage material.
3. The oil companies currently pay around $154 per ton for high–octane gasoline, $113 per ton for low–octane gasoline and $46 per ton of diesel.
4. The highest $270 per ton duty would apply when New York prices were no more than $''.21 per ton.
5. Copper for delivery in three months was bid at $3,034 per ton and offered at $3,03' per ton Tuesday.