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ton
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What does ton mean?
noun
- The short ton of 2000 pounds (about 907 kg), 20 hundredweights of 100 pounds avoirdupois each.
- The long ton of 2240 pounds (about 1016 kg), 20 hundredweights of 112 pounds avoirdupois each.
- The metric ton of 1000 kilograms (about 2205 lb), 10 quintals of 100 kilograms each.
More meanings (12)
noun
- The measurement ton of (US) 40 or (UK) 42 cubic feet (about 1.1 or 1.2 m³).
- The register ton of 100 cubic feet (about 2.83 m³).
- (figuratively) Any large, excessive, or overwhelming amount of anything.
- 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.
- 100 pounds sterling.
- 100 points.
- 100 runs.
- A speed of 100 mph (160 km/h).
- Fashion, the current style, the vogue.
- Fashionable society; those in style.
- Synonym of tunny, particularly the common tunny or horse mackerel.
- Initialism of threshold odor number.
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It is said that provisions were taken in sufficient quantities to last a fortnight, and over a ton of ballast was shipped.
The town being situated in the coal region of Pennsylvania, good coal could then be obtained there at seventy-five cents a ton.
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It weighed nearly a ton to the mile, was flexible as a rope, and able to withstand a pull of several tons.
There probably are only a few homestead composters able to utilize a ton or two of wet fish waste at one time.
A good handful to the ton, scattering it as the hay is stocked is as good a formula as can be had.