ton
IPA: tˈʌn
noun
- Any of various units of mass, (historical) originally notionally equal to the contents of a tun, particularly
- 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, 10 quintals of 100 kilograms each.
- Any of various units of volume, (historical) originally notionally equal to the contents of a tun, particularly
- 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.
- (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.
- (slang, chiefly UK) Synonym of hundred, particularly
- 100 pounds sterling.
- (darts, snooker, etc.) 100 points.
- (cricket) 100 runs.
- A speed of 100 mph.
- 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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Examples of "ton" in Sentences
- 'Half a ton is a large quantity!' sighed the bear.
- Vilain ton as two words, to sharpen the pun; and he scrawled an equivocation about Ney or
- Although 2,000 pounds make 1 ton, it is well to note that 2,240 pounds make 1 _long ton_ (L.T.).
- "I don't take him seriously," answered Brigit; "he has the great science of _l'excellent ton dans le mauvis ton_.
- The twentieth crop, on the continuously unmanured plot was nearly 1¼ ton per acre, the first cutting, and nearly ¾-ton the second cutting.
- The men carry metal plates, each weighing more than a ton from the shoreline to waiting trucks, walking in step like pallbearers, or like members of a chain gang.
- The long ton is used by coal dealers in some localities, but the ton, sometimes called the _short ton_, is in more general use and is the one meant unless long ton is specified.
- A device often adopted in practice where a large number of assays of one kind are made, and the report is given as so many ounces or pounds to the ton, is that known as the _assay ton_.
- Most analysts expect the price of iron ore to fall to US$75/ton from the current US$150/ton level by the middle of this decade, given a large new supply of iron ore coming into the market due to increased investment in iron ore mining globally.
- Woodbury Kane -- social leader, Fortune's favorite, aristocratic, refined, cultured, wealthy, _haut ton de haut ton_, and _sabreur sans peur et sans reproche_ -- how shall I paint him to you as I learned to know him in those dreadful, delightful seventeen days in which we lived only from instant to instant, and every man unconsciously bared his soul to his comrades because he could not help it?
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