noun
a United States unit of weight equivalent to 2000 pounds
• Hypernyms: ↑avoirdupois unit
• Part Holonyms: ↑kiloton
• Part Meronyms: ↑hundredweight, ↑cwt, ↑short hundredweight, ↑centner, ↑cental, ↑quintal
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noun : ton 1b
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1. Also called net register ton. Naut. one gross ton registered as taxable.
2. See short ton.
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net ton,
a short ton; 2,000 pounds.
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[tən]n. another term for ton I (sense 1)
Useful english dictionary. 2012.