metric ton

metric ton

English

Noun

metric ton (plural metric tons)

1. A tonne, a unit of mass equal to 1000 kilograms.
   • 2006, Edwin Black, chapter 2, in Internal Combustion‎:

     One typical Grecian kiln engorged one thousand muleloads of juniper wood in a single burn. Fifty such kilns would devour six thousand metric tons of trees and brush annually.

Usage notes

• Often used to avoid confusion between the tonne and the (long) ton, which are almost equal (about 2204.6 pounds and exactly 2240 pounds respectively).

Synonyms

• tonne
• megagram
• MT (U.S. abbreviation)

Translations

unit of mass equal to 1000 kilograms

Arabic: طُنّ مِتْرِيّ‎ (ṭunn mitriyy) Breton: tonenn (br) f Chinese: Mandarin: 公噸 (zh), 公吨 (zh) (gōngdūn or gōngdùn) Dutch: ton (nl) m Finnish: tonni (fi) French: tonne (fr) f Galician: tonelada métrica f German: Tonne (de) f

Greek: τόνος (el) m (tónos) Italian: tonnellata (it) f Japanese: メトリックトン, グラムトン Malay: tan metrik Portuguese: tonelada métrica f Russian: please add this translation if you can Spanish: tonelada métrica f Swedish: ton (sv)