Centner

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. A unit of weight in Germany and Scandinavia corresponding to the hundredweight and equal to 50 kilograms (110.23 pounds).
  • n. A unit of weight in parts of the former Soviet Union equal to 100 kilograms (220.46 pounds).
  • n. An assaying unit equal to one dram.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. A unit of weight with different actual definitions in parts of Germany and Scandinavia, typically 100 local pounds.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. A weight divisible first into a hundred parts, and then into smaller parts.
  • n. The commercial hundredweight in several of the continental countries, varying in different places from 100 to about 112 pounds.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. In metal, and assaying, a weight divisible first into a hundred parts and then into smaller parts.
  • n. A common name in many European countries for a hundredweight.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. a unit of weight equal to 100 kilograms
  • n. a United States unit of weight equivalent to 100 pounds
  • n. in some European countries: a unit of weight equivalent to 50 kilograms
    • Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    weight unit    metric weight unit    avoirdupois unit   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    lentner    ventner   
     
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