"long ton" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [English]

Forms: long tons [plural]
Etymology: Distinguishing this measure from the "short ton" of 2000 pounds. Head templates: {{en-noun}} long ton (plural long tons)
  1. (chiefly historical) A traditional unit of mass equal to 20 hundredweights of 112 pounds avoirdupois each, equivalent to approximately 1016 kilograms. Wikidata QID: Q667419 Tags: historical Synonyms: ton[Appendix:Glossary, tun Hypernyms: ton Coordinate_terms: short ton, metric ton, tonne, measurement ton, register ton Translations (ton of 20 hundredweights of 112 pounds each): 長噸 /长吨 (chángdūn) (Chinese Mandarin), Engelse ton [feminine] (Dutch), pitkä tonni (Finnish), angol tonna (Hungarian), 英トン (eiton) (alt: えいトン) (Japanese), engelskt ton [neuter] (Swedish)

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