short hundredweight — noun a United States unit of weight equivalent to 100 pounds • Syn: ↑hundredweight, ↑cwt, ↑centner, ↑cental, ↑quintal • Hypernyms: ↑avoirdupois unit • Part Holonyms: ↑ … Useful english dictionary
short hundredweight — noun Date: 1924 hundredweight 1 … New Collegiate Dictionary
short hundredweight — a common name for the U.S hundredweight or cental (100 pounds) … Dictionary of units of measurement
hundredweight — ► NOUN (pl. same or hundredweights) 1) (also long hundredweight) Brit. a unit of weight equal to 112 lb (about 50.8 kg). 2) (also short hundredweight) US a unit of weight equal to 100 lb (about 45.4 kg). 3) (also metric hundredweight) a unit of… … English terms dictionary
Short — bezeichnet Short Brothers (Flugzeughersteller), ein ehemaliger britischer Flugzeughersteller Short Brothers (Werft), eine ehemaliger britische Werft in der Mathematik als Short Format einen Begriff der Gleitkommaarithmetik, siehe IEEE 754 FP… … Deutsch Wikipedia
Hundredweight — The hundredweight or centum weight (abbreviated cwt) is a unit of mass defined in terms of the pound (lb). The definition used in Britain differs from that used in North America. The two are distinguished by the terms long hundredweight and short … Wikipedia
Short ton — The short ton is a unit of mass equal to 2,000 pounds (907.18474 kg).[1] In the United States it is often called simply ton[1] without distinguishing it from the metric ton (tonne, 1,000 kilograms / 2,204.62262 pounds) or the long ton… … Wikipedia
Hundredweight — Das Hundredweight ist eine veraltete Größe des angloamerikanischen Maßsystems und entspricht in etwa dem deutschen Zentner. Je nach Verwendungsort bezeichnet es das short hundredweight oder das long hundredweight (englisch): Short Hundredweight – … Deutsch Wikipedia
hundredweight — 100 pounds. Abbreviated as cwt. Chicago Mercantile Exchange Glossary * * * hundredweight hun‧dred‧weight [ˈhʌndrdweɪt] written abbreviation cwt noun [countable] a unit for measuring weight equal to 112 pounds or 50.9 kilograms: • a hundredweight … Financial and business terms
hundredweight — (Cwt or cwt) a traditional unit of weight equal to 1/20 ton. The hundredweight is the English version of a commercial unit used throughout Europe and known in other countries as the quintal or the zentner. In general, this unit is larger… … Dictionary of units of measurement